Hush! Be careful! Even if Aton takes me, the chain of lives must bring us again together. It were but a brief separation—a sacrifice of pain and joy we both may offer as one being. And when, in our next life, we meet again, what ecstasy of strengthened, purified love would be ours—to know each had been faithful to the other—for His sake.
Nefertiti
(Roused.) Me grow old in loneliness while you satisfy your soul with selfish worship! Our sacrifice!
Menophis
In dreams we still——
Nefertiti
We should never meet; a dream’s a dream. No children would come to me.
Menophis
You would not pine. It would be, for both of us, a preparation for our meeting in a future life——