For the last time, Rhádamandáspes, consider. Even yet we may turn back.
Rhádamandáspes:
She had no guards outside nor was there any hiding place for them.
There was the empty plain and the Nile only.
Zophérnes:
Who knows what she may have in this dark temple?
Rhádamandáspes:
It is small and the stairway narrow; our friends are close behind us.
We could hold these steps with our swords against all her men.
Zophérnes:
True. They are narrow steps. Yet… Rhádamandáspes, I do not fear man or god or even woman, yet when I saw the letter this woman sent bidding us banquet with her I felt that it was not well that we should come.
Rhádamandáspes: