But no: there before his eyes was worked again the miracle which had already been worked in his own case, though now it was, if possible, even more marvellous than it had been before.

As Nitocris turned she uttered a low cry of wonder and recognition, and held out both hands to her other twin-self.

The Queen took them, and said in the Ancient Tongue, which now she understood again after many centuries: "Welcome, thou who wast once myself, into this larger life to which the Perfect Knowledge hath led thee: where Time is not, and that which was, and is, and shall be are the same! Thou hast yet many days, as men call them, to live in that limited life known as mortal, and so the mortal lot, with its perils and sorrows and joys, shall yet be thine: yet, although, if the High Gods will it so, that life shall end and begin and end again many times, thou hast already won through the shadows which bound that little life into the light of the Day which knows not dawn nor noon nor night.

I who was, and thou who art, are one again!" Then came silence.

Franklin Marmion saw the two kindred shapes merge into each other.