“I do not see how!”
“The Sphinx faces the East—light!”
“True!”
“It can not reach that light toward which it looks, neither could the Nubians.”
“All true.”
“It was part man, part beast; but the upper part was man, and this is what we think we know, and all of man?”
“Oh, knight, Phthah, the ‘beautiful-faced,’ ‘secret-opener’ of the Nile gods has touched thee.”
“The Sphinx was like man’s thought; too great for words; at least such words as men can now fit to their lips.”
“I see; it’s all coming into my mind, master.”