Back to toil and pain and you and Egypt.
When she looked up at the end, David spoke at once.
“Well,” he said, “what does it say to you?”
“I don’t quite know.”
“It set up one of those curious thought-waves. One seems to remember something out of an extraordinarily distant past. Have you ever felt it? I believe most people have. There are all sorts of theories to account for it. The two sides of the brain working unequally, and several others. But the impression is common enough, and the theories have been made to fit it. Of course the one that fits most happily is the hopelessly unscientific one of reincarnation. Well, my thought-wave took me back to Egypt and——”
He hesitated.
“Tell me.”
Elizabeth’s voice was eager.
“Oh, nothing.”
“Yes, tell me.”