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`` No , child , no , '' was the reply . `` But nothing can be clone about looking into the future now . It requires rigid fasting from early dawn , and I ate the dates you brought me . I inhaled the odor of the roasting ducks , too , and then -- it must be done at midnight ; and at midnight your people will be anxious if you are not at home by that time , or perhaps send a slave to seek you here at my house , and that -- that must not be done -- I must prevent it . '' `` So you are expecting some one , '' Ledscha eagerly replied . `` And I know who it is . Your son Satabus , or one of your grandsons .