Yet, as the High Gods live, he did this thing; and to do it he must have passed to the higher life through the gate of the Perfect Knowledge." "In other words," said the Prince, after a big gulp of his brandy-and-soda, "that he has solved that infernal problem of the fourth dimension you have had so much to say about.

Now, granted that he has done so, what does it amount to as regards our world--the world of practical thought and real action, I mean ?" "All thought is practical, Highness," replied Phadrig, "since there can be no action which is intelligent without thought.

Wherefore, the higher the thought the more potent the action, and so he who has the Perfect Knowledge has also the Perfect Power." "Then, do you mean to tell me seriously--and I can hardly think that you would trifle with me--that this man is now practically omnipotent, as far as we lower beings, as you seem to call us, are concerned ?" "Only the High Gods are omnipotent, Your Excellency; but, if I have seen rightly, he is as a god to us of the lower life, and therefore I would pray you again to utterly relinquish your lately and, as I have dared for your sake to say, rashly-formed designs to make the Queen who was, and his daughter that is, the sharer of your future throne.

Is not the Princess Hermia noble and fair enough ?" "No, by all your gods, no!" exclaimed the Prince passionately.

"Since I have seen the woman who, as you say, was once Queen of Egypt, there is, and shall be, no other consort for me.