Zophérnes:
Believe me, Rhádamandáspes, it is better. I think that if you had gone down these steps we scarcely should have seen the sky again.
Rhádamandáspes:
Well, well, we turn back, though I would fain have humoured the Queen's whim. But look. The others come. We cannot turn back. There comes the Priest of Horus; we must go to the banquet now.
Zophérnes:
So be it.
[They descend.]
Rhádamandáspes:
We will be circumspect. If she has men in there we return at once.
Zophérnes: