But it has come between us. You love it so. And it’s my fault that you can’t—your career, I mean——
Phillip
Dear one, whatever is, is right. There is nothing to regret. Egypt, indeed, has drawn me strangely. There is some power out there—a spiritual power—that has cast a glamour over me. It has been a passion with me.
Mrs. Lattin
My instinctive terror!
Phillip
And my instinctive love!
[They glance together in silence at a great picture above the bed—an Egyptian night-scene, with stars and Nile.
Yes … yes … strange indeed! From my earliest days it drew me. Those palms and temples, that majestic desert——!