He shook his head.
“Theos has her own sons to direct her future. I am a stranger.”
“So is the King!”
“But he is a Tyrnaus. The people have chosen him for their King.”
“You are his friend,” she said, “and to you I may not say very much. But he is young, and he may make mistakes. He comes of a family who have done much evil here.”
Brand was startled.
“I thought that you and your brother were his chief supporters,” he said. “People are saying, too——”
Her fan stopped. Brand hesitated.
“Please to go on,” she said, imperiously.
“It is not my affair,” he continued, awkwardly. “I ought not to have alluded to it. But they are speaking of the possibilities of a marriage between you and him.”