So she unmasked her batteries, with a delicious little rippling laugh and a lazy, cat-like movement that betokened joy in the danger that was coming, if I know anything at all of what sign-language means.
"I knew that very day that you resigned your commission in the army, and I laughed with delight at the news, knowing that the gods who are our servants had contrived it.

I know why thou art here," she said; and the change from you to thou was not haphazard.
"It is well known, Princess, that your spies are the cleverest in India," King answered.
"Spies?
I need no spies as long as old India lives.

Friends are better." "Do all princesses break their promises ?" he countered, meeting her eyes steadily.
"Never yet did I break one promise, whether it was for good or evil." "Princess," he answered, looking sternly at her, "in Jamrud Fort you agreed to take no part again in politics, national or international in return for a promise of personal freedom and permission to reside in India." "My promise was dependent on my liberty.

But is this liberty--to be forced to reside in this old palace, with the spies of the Government keeping watch on my doings, except when they chance to be outwitted?
Nevertheless, I have kept my promise.

Thou knowest me better than to think that I need to break promises in order to outwit a government of Englishmen!" "Quibbles won't help, Princess," he answered.