To-day we must rescue Pentaur; but the princess must know nothing of it, for if my plan fails--" "Child! girl!" interrupted Nefert eagerly.

"How can I help you ?" "Order the steward to give the drivers of the gang a skin of wine in the name of the princess, and out of Bent-Anat's case of medicines take the phial which contains the sleeping draught, which, in spite of your wish, she will not take.

I will wait here, and I know how to use it." Nefert immediately found the steward, and ordered him to follow Uarda with a skin of wine.

Then she went back to the princess's tent, and opened the medicine case.
[A medicine case, belonging to a more ancient period than the reign of Rameses, is preserved in the Berlin Museum.] "What do you want ?" asked Bent-Anat.
"A remedy for palpitation," replied Nefert; she quietly took the flask she needed, and in a few minutes put it into Uarda's hand.
The girl asked the steward to open the wine-skin, and let her taste the liquor.

While she pretended to drink it, she poured the whole contents of the phial into the wine, and then let Bent-Anat's bountiful present be carried to the thirsty drivers.
She herself went towards the kitchen tent, and found a young Amalekite sitting on the ground with the princess's servants.