Who brought them here?
How came they here?
How know you that they also are not servants of the Sun?
Is this the hospitality that ye would have our nation show to those whom chance brings to them, to throw them to the flames?
Shame on you! Shame on you! What is hospitality?
To receive the stranger and show him favour.

To bind up his wounds, and find a pillow for his head, and food for him to eat.

But thy pillow is the fiery furnace, and thy food the hot savour of the flame.

Shame on thee, I say!' She paused a little to watch the effect of her speech upon the multitude, and seeing that it was favourable, changed her tone from one of remonstrance to one of command.
'Ho! place there,' she cried; 'place, I say; make way for the Queens, and those whom the Queens cover with their "kaf" (mantle).' 'And if I refuse, oh Queen ?' said Agon between his teeth.
'Then will I cut a path with my guards,' was the proud answer; 'ay, even in the presence of thy sanctuary, and through the bodies of thy priests.' Agon turned livid with baffled fury.

He glanced at the people as though meditating an appeal to them, but saw clearly that their sympathies were all the other way.