"For this is the sign of what I bear with me unhappily," he replied, "thought not all pay mind to them. They are monsters not half so horrible and dreadful as anything in human imagination."
And here he lifted up the folds of his robe to reveal Bastet and Erato on their knees in front of him. "Twins, they are, born of their father Mankind-- this is Ignorance, and this, Want." His hands, still holding the hem of his robe, rested lightly upon both their shoulders.