In the midst of those hours set apart for sleep and constituting the night of the Vril-ya, I was awakened from the disturbed slumber into which I had not long fallen, by a hand on my shoulder.

I started and beheld Zee standing beside me.

"Hush," she said in a whisper; "let no one hear us.

Dost thou think that I have ceased to watch over thy safety because I could not win thy love?
I have seen Taee.

He has not prevailed with his father, who had meanwhile conferred with the three sages who, in doubtful matters, he takes into council, and by their advice he has ordained thee to perish when the world re-awakens to life.