Chapter 55

This means that on this night, the queen's husband, who is otherwise free, will remain in her heart, who is mortal and cannot leave his place in the mummy's shroud. This means that when the sun goes down at sea, Queen Tira will cease to exist as a sentient force, even the sunrise; unless the great temptation can remind her of waking life. That is, there will be nothing to fear you or others of her as we all have remember. Whatever change may come from the work of the great temptation, none of the woman can come Poor, helpless, dead woman who had waited all those centuries for this night; and who had given up until the next hour all eternal freedom, in the old way, in the hope of a new life in such a new world as she had longed for..."

She stopped abruptly and as she spoke, her words came with a strange pathetic tone, almost pleading which affected me quickly and when she stopped, I could see, before she turned her head away, that her eyes filled with tears for o