Third Admonition

After this stranger-queen had acquainted herself with all that belonged to the king in Zion, she was satisfied. Her soul was satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and knew not what to make of herself. She did not understand her new condition; the joy was overwhelming. She says that the half had not been told her, and that Solomon exceeded the fame that had reached her about him. There was no more spirit in her. She returned to her land and to her people filled. She left Solomon, as did the woman of Sychar who left Jesus, emptied of all beside, but filled and satisfied with her new-found treasure.
Such had been her wondrous path. Her journey had begun in the restless, uneasy sense of need, with all her former fair surface of flattering circumstances being broken up. She had acquainted herself with the vast, mysterious treasures of the place where her journey had led her. She had done this carefully, with a heart only the more engaged and interested as she went onward in her search. She ended her journey and returned to her own land as one filled to the very brim with all her expectations and desires.