I hope so, for you have work to do.
As for the second--arise, you Priests and Officers, and see this Prince of yours do homage to the Queen of Egypt." They rose, and clung to each other trembling, for all the heart was out of them.

Then she pointed to her foot with the sceptre in her hand, and in their presence Abi knelt down and kissed her sandal.

After him followed the others, the priests, the captains, the head-stewards, and the butlers, till at length came Kaku, the astrologer, who prostrated himself before her, trembling in every limb.

But him she would not suffer even to touch her sandals.
"Tell me," she said, drawing back her foot, "you who are a magician, and have studied the secret writings, how does it chance that you still live on, when for lesser crimes so many lie here dead, you who are stained with the blood of Pharaoh ?" Hearing these words from which he presaged the very worst, Kaku beat his head upon the ground, babbling denials of this awful crime, and at the same time began to implore pardon for what he said he had not committed.
"Cease," she exclaimed, "and learn that your life is spared for a while, yes, and even Merytra's.

Also you will retain your office of Vizier--for a while." Now he began to pour out thanks, but she stopped him, saying: "Thank me not, seeing that you do not know the end of this matter.
Perchance it is hidden from you lest you should go mad, you and your wife, Merytra, she who was the Pharaoh's Lady of the Footstool, and sang him to sleep.