lye

I am a golem, child,_ answered Lye calmly. __y mistress wrote it there. She was marvelous clever and knew all kinds of secret things. One of the things she knew was how to gather up all the slips of soap the bath house patrons left behind and arrange them into a girl shape and write __ruth_ on her forehead and wake her up and give her a name and say to her: __e my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.