RHEOU. What I have told you, tell to all; and this, besides, say to them: each time that any would cross the will of Satni--they who dare the attempt will be scattered, even as the guards were scattered yesterday. Add this, that Satni is guided by the spirit of the dead Pharaoh, that I last night beheld my father's spirit, and that great events will come to pass in Egypt. STEWARD. I shall tell them. RHEOU. Behold, the envoy of the new gods! Leave me to speak with him. Go, repeat my words. _The Steward goes out._ _Satni enters from the back. Rheou prostrates himself before Satni._ SATNI [_looking behind him_] Before which God do you still bow down? RHEOU. Before you. If you be not a God, you are the spirit of a God. SATNI. I do not understand your words. RHEOU. Who can call down thunderbolts from heaven, unless he be an envoy of the Gods? SATNI. I am no-- RHEOU. 'Tis well, 'tis well. You would have us blind to your power of working miracles. After yesterday you can hide it no more. Henceforth, Satni, you must no longer confine your teaching to Mieris, to me, to your parents, Yaouma, to a few--henceforth you may speak to all, all ears are opened by this miracle. SATNI. Let us leave that! I pray you rise and tell me rather what has befallen Yaouma. RHEOU. Yaouma!--Did she not at first interpret the thunderclap as sign of the wrath of Ammon against her? SATNI. She believes still in Ammon, then, despite all I have said to her. RHEOU. Happily I undeceived her. I made her understand that 'twas you the elements obeyed, that the thunder that frighted her, was but a sign of your power. SATNI. Why should you lie to her? RHEOU. It was not wholly lying. Besides, it was fortunate I could thus explain the event. Had you but seen her-- SATNI. All my efforts of these two months past, in vain! RHEOU. You remember when you left us yesterday. You might have thought that all her superstitions were banished at last. She no longer answered you, she questioned you no more, and at your last words her silence confirmed the belief that at length you had won her away from Ammon. Yet after you were gone, at the moment of entering her hiding place, she was swept with sudden fury as though an evil spirit had entered her, wept, cried and tore her hair-- SATNI. What said she? RHEOU. "To the temple! to the temple! I would go to the temple! The God has chosen me! The God awaits me! Egypt will perish!" In short, words of madness. She would have killed herself! SATNI. Killed herself!