"Lord Eglington is in Egypt also ?" he asked.
Her face did not change.

She looked him in the eyes.
"No, Eglington would not come to help you.

I came to Nahoum, as I said I would." "Thee has a good memory," he rejoined simply.

"I am a good friend," she answered, then suddenly her face flushed up, her breast panted, her eyes shone with a brightness almost intolerable to him, and he said in a low, shaking voice: "It is all fighting, all fighting.

We have done our best; and thee has made all possible." "David!" she said in a voice scarce above a whisper.
"Thee and me have far to go," he said in a voice not louder than her own, "but our ways may not be the same." She understood, and a newer life leaped up in her.