At last she looked up and smiled.
'"So thou art come," she said.

"I thought perchance thou hadst gone about the Queen Nyleptha's business.

Thou art ever on her business, and I doubt not a good servant and a true." 'To this I merely bowed, and said I was there to receive the Queen's word.
'"Ah yes, I would talk with thee, but be thou seated.

It wearies me to look so high," and she made room for me beside her on the couch, placing herself with her back against the end, so as to have a view of my face.
'"It is not meet," I said, "that I should make myself equal with the Queen." '"I said be seated," was her answer, so I sat down, and she began to look at me with those dark eyes of hers.

There she sat like an incarnate spirit of beauty, hardly talking at all, and when she did, very low, but all the while looking at me.