He closed his eyes for a moment, as he thought, and when he opened them again he was alone.

He looked at the clock, and saw that it was after four.
"Dear me!" he said, getting up with a shake of his shoulders, "I must have fallen asleep.

Where's Niti?
Why, of course, she has been in bed for hours, and it's about time that I got there, too." When they met before breakfast Nitocris said to him: "I had a very strange experience last night, Dad.

I either saw, or dreamt I saw, the Mummy alive again, robed and crowned like a queen of ancient Egypt; and then we seemed to become the same person, and I remembered that I had been Queen Nitocris of Egypt once.

Then I found myself alone--so very much alone--in a new world which was still like this one, only there wasn't any time.