"You should argue in the Nomarch's courts.
No, Renisenb, what I said was true enough - people are always themselves.
Satipy, like Sobek, was all bold words and talk.
She, indeed, might go on from talk to action - but I think she is one of those who cannot know a thing or what it is like until it has happened.
In her life up to that particular day, she had never had anything to fear.
When fear came, it took her unawares.
She learned then that courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen - and she had not got that courage."
Renisenb murmured in a low voice: "When fear came...
Yes, that is what has been with us ever since Nofret died.
Satipy has carried it in her face for us all to see.
It was there, staring from her eyes when she died... hen she said
'Nofret...' It was as though she saw -"
Renisenb stopped herself.
She turned her face to Hori, her eyes wide with a question.
"Hori, what did she see?
There on the path.
We saw nothing!
There was nothing."
"Not for us - no."
"But for her!
It was Nofret she saw - Nofret come to take her revenge.
But Nofret is dead and her tomb is sealed.
What then did she see?"
"The picture that her own mind showed her."
"You are sure!
Because if not -"
"Yes, Renisenb, if not?"
"Hori -" Renisenb stretched out her hand. "Is it ended now?
Now that Satipy is dead?
Is it truly ended?"
He held her hand in both of his in a comforting clasp.
"Yes, yes, Renisenb - surely.
And you at least need not be afraid."
Renisenb murmured under her breath: "But Esa says that Nofret hated me..."
"Nofret hated you?"
"Esa says so."
"Nofret was good at hating," said Hori.
"Sometimes I think she hated every person in this house.
But you at least did nothing against her."
"No - no, that is true."
"And therefore, Renisenb, there is nothing in your mind to rise up against you in judgment."
"You mean, Hori, that if I were to walk down this path alone - at sunset - at that same time when Nofret died - and if I were to turn my head - I should see nothing?
I should be safe?"
"You will be safe, Renisenb, because if you walk down the path, I will walk with you and no harm shall come to you."
But Renisenb frowned and shook her head.
"No, Hori. I will walk alone."
"But why, little Renisenb?
Will you not be afraid?"
"Yes," said Renisenb,
"I think I shall be afraid.