Touched by the fire of a great idea, she was of those who could have gone out into the world without wallet or scrip, to work passionately for some great end.
And she had married the Earl of Eglington! She leaned towards David, and said eagerly: "But you are satisfied--you are satisfied with your work for poor Egypt ?" "Thee says 'poor Egypt,'" he answered, "and thee says well.

Even now she is not far from the day of Rameses and Joseph.

Thee thinks perhaps thee knows Egypt--none knows her." "You know her--now ?" He shook his head slowly.

"It is like putting one's ear to the mouth of the Sphinx.

Yet sometimes, almost in despair, when I have lain down in the desert beside my camel, set about with enemies, I have got a message from the barren desert, the wide silence, and the stars." He paused.
"What is the message that comes ?" she asked softly.