"Socially or romantically?" he countered.

"Why romantically, of course."

He looked at her thru half closed eyes and said, "That's like asking one if he ever succumbed to the magic of moonlight." A silence then in a low voice, "It's beautiful on the river tonight. Have you seen it?"

"Moonlight on the Nile," Greta rolled her eyes ceilingward and sighed. "I can't imagine anything lovelier."

"You don't have to. I'll get a dhow," Nayam said, rising. "But you better change your gown. Those boats carry everything from fish to pigs."

Earl laughed. After they left he walked thru the park in hopes of finding a young Egyptian to guide him thru the ruins. In the warm silvered darkness the towering columns should be thrilling but the only men were elderly. Finally he returned to the hotel and sat in the lobby. Soon after, to his amazement he saw Greta and Naym come in. As they approached he saw disgust on Greta's face and heard it in her voice, "It was wonderful, simply marvelous," then between her teeth, "you ought to try it sometime."

"Why not tomorrow night?" Naym suggested, a sly smile parting his lips. After he left, Greta exploded. "What a ghastly ordeal that was. If ever there was a human ice box he's one. No sooner were we out on that river in that stink'n boat than he started telling me yarns about those dumb Nubians. When a guy marries a girl he has to give her old man six camels, instead of her dad giving them a house or something worth while he returns three. Another tale was about an old Egyptian queen wearing a beard and men's clothes. Her name was Hatshepsut. She even kept a harem of girls. Naym said we could see her tomb in the Valley of the Kings. I was bored stiff. The only way I could get him off the subject was to ask him what he really thought about women. I'll be damned if the fool didn't recite a poem. It was so senseless I had him repeat it so I could memorize it. It goes,

"A woman's intent is gall to eat. Coated with honey from outside; So he who tastes it thinks it sweet Till he finds out what it doth hide."

Greta suffered a violent headache and cramps the following evening and had her dinner sent to her room.

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