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20 Mrs, Lattin You love me too well to understand. (Sighs.) My illness is not only of the body. Now, leave me, dearest. I wish to see him quite alone.

Phillip

Little Child, you shall. You can dismiss the nurse. (Glances at clock.) It is close on Six.

Mrs. Lattin

Kiss me. (He kisses her softiy and goes out.) If only—ah, if only my great yearn- ing «. [Ske hes back exhausted. Sighs. Covers her face with her hands. After a moment she uncovers her face and half sits up again. She stares hard at Egyptian picture on the wall.

The fault lies in my soul, and it comes first from there—from Egypt. ‘The river is rising, rising once again. The stars are