This is a dream; the desert and Egypt only are real.
"That is true, I think.

I seem sometimes like a sojourner here, like a spirit 'revisiting the scenes of life and time.'" He laughed boyishly.
"Yet you are happy here.

I understand now why and how you are what you are.

Even I that have been here so short a time feel the influence upon me.

I breathe an air that, somehow, seems a native air.