Do not fear, dear! but you are too tender for such a journey, and to such a distance; I might--" "No, no," cried Nefert.

"I am going, too, if you were going to the four pillars of heaven, at the limits of the earth.

You have given me a new life, and the little sprout that is green within me would wither again if I had to return to my mother.

Only she or I can be in our house, and I will re-enter it only with Mena." "It is settled--I must go," said the princess.

"Oh! if only my father were not so far off, and that I could consult him!" "Yes! the war, and always the war!" sighed Nefert.