In fact, directly my strength returned with the cooler air, I made up my mind to the venture and went to Heru, who by this time was much recovered.

To her I whispered my plot, and that gentle lady, as was only natural, trembled at its dangers.

But I put it to her that no time could be better than the present: the storm was going over; morning would "line the black mantle of the night with a pink dawn of promise"; before any one stirred we might be far off, shaping a course by our luck and the stars for her kindred, at whose name she sighed.

If we stayed, I argued, and the king changed his mind, then death for me, and for Heru the arms of that surly monarch, and all the rest of her life caged in these pallisades amongst the uncouth forms about us.
The lady gave a frightened little shiver at the picture, but after a moment, laying her head upon my shoulder, answered, "Oh, my guardian spirit and helper in adversity, I too have thought of tomorrow, and doubt whether that horror, that great swine who has me, will not invent an excuse for keeping me.

Therefore, though the forest roads are dreadful, and Seth very far away, I will come; I give myself into your hands.