He knew better than to interrupt.
"It was through the information which Nita brought me," his master went on, "that I have been able to check the truth of Immelan's statement as to the French dispositions and the _rapprochement_ with Italy.

Nita has served me very well indeed.

What she has done in this matter, she has done in a moment of caprice." "My lord," Li Wen ventured, "a woman is of no account in the plans of the greatest.

She is like a leaf blown hither or thither on the winds of love or jealousy.

She may be used, but she must be discarded." "It is a strange world, this western world," Prince Shan mused.