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42 Sethos

(Supplicating.) May I not stay a mo- meni—at least, until Menophis——-?

Nefertiti Sethos, you heard me. It is the sacred night. The tear of Isis falls into our River when the dusk has passed to darkness. And J must worship.

Sethos

Menophis comes also with the dusk. You meet here every evening; anu when he comes I am forgotten. May I not stay and be remembered—till he comes? (Implores.) Your beauty makes me slavish. Out of his plenty he will not miss so little, and I— starve.

Nefertiti Not now. Sethos, I tell you, go! His

coming, as you know, makes the dry desert live for me. I would not have him troubled