You may remember a certain slap in the face and how I paid him back for it." "He never knew it was you, Merytra.

Being a mass of self-conceit, he thought that you ran away because he had banished you from his royal presence and presented you--to me." "Oh, he thought that, did he! What a vain fool!" "It was a very dirty trick you played me, Merytra," went on Kaku with indignation, for the rich wine coursing through his blood revived the sting of his loss.

"You know how fond I always was of you, and indeed am still," he added, gazing at her admiringly.
"I felt that I was not worthy of so learned and distinguished a man," she replied, looking at him with her dark eyes.

"I should only have hampered your life, dear Kaku, so I went into the household of that poor creature, Pharaoh, instead--Pharaoh's Nunnery we call it.

But you will not explain the facts to Abi, will you ?" "No, I think not, Merytra, if we continue to get on as well as we do at present.