He was arrogant, especially when his belly was full of beer, and he liked to show off in front of the temple girls.’ Lady Thena spat the words out. ‘He liked nothing better than to strut like a goose with what he called his well-muscled thighs and flat stomach. He was always boasting about his exploits. One day a temple girl came to see me, highly distraught because she had missed her monthly courses for the second time. She confessed how she had lain with Mafdet.’ Lady Thena shook her head. ‘My lord, she was really only a girl, with a child’s mind in a woman’s body.’ ‘Did you tell your husband?’ ‘You can tell from his expression,’ Lady Thena smiled weakly, ‘that this is the first he ever knew of it. I questioned Mafdet, I challenged him, but of course he denied it. He said if the girl was pregnant she might have lain with my husband or Lord Paser, what proof did I have? I hated him for that. My detestation deepened when he referred to other matters. He claimed he knew what happened in the Temple of Isis.’ ‘Did he?’ ‘Oh, he tapped his nose and winked.
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