Wisdom Buildeth Her House, Chapter 1

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​‌​‌​​​‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌⁠Whilst her great train was picking its way carefully from the mountain-tops of Abyssinia, eight thousand treacherous feet of height, to the littoral of the Red Sea, the slim brown queen had experienced only impatience. In the cool quietness of her mountain home it had seemed the most natural thing in the world to arise and visit the young king of the Jews. On every step of the long journey downhil