"Abby has kissed Dang! Doggy has made friends with the king."
The queen laughed, too.
"There, you've done enough fanning, sit down and rest," she said to Dio, and Dio sat down at the foot of her chair.
"The kingdom is for the children," she suddenly recalled aloud the king's words that she had heard from little Ankhi.
"The kingdom is for the children," the queen repeated. "And do you know how it goes on?"
"How?"
"What is most divine in men? Tears of the wise? No, laughter of children."
"So this is why the god Aton has children's hands for rays?" Dio asked.
"Yes, the whole of wisdom is in this: what is childlike is divine," the queen answered and, gently placing her hand on Dio's head, looked straight into her eyes.
"How is it you are so pretty to-day? Have you fallen in love by any chance?" she said, smiling—'quite like him—' Dio thought.