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Esa paused and said slowly: “Nofret is beautiful. But remember this: Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and lo, in a minute they are become discolored carnelians…” Her voice deepened as she quoted: “A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream, and death comes as the end…”

From her early childhood Renisenb could remember hearing these elder brothers of hers arguing in just those selfsame accents. It gave her suddenly a feeling of security…She was home again. Yes, she had come home…Yet as she looked once more across the pale, shining river, her rebellion and pain mounted again. Khay, her young husband, was dead…Khay with his laughing face and strong shoulders. Khay was with Osiris in the Kingdom of the Dead — and she, Renisenb, his dearly loved wife, was left desolate. Eight years they had had together — she had come to him as little more than a child — and now she had returned widowed, with Khay’s child, Teti, to her father’s house.

“What persecution — what vindictiveness — is this! My concubine whom I treated well, to whom I paid all honor, whom I buried with the proper rites, sparing no expense. I have eaten and drunk with her in friendship — to that all can bear witness. She had had nothing of which to complain — I did indeed more for her than would have been considered right and fitting. I was prepared to favor her to the detriment of my sons who were born to me. Why, then, should she thus come back from the dead to persecute me and my family?”