“Indeed, master, I did not draw the talk round in that way.”
“Perhaps,” he mused, “the queen has not treated you courteously.”
“You are wrong indeed,” she said happily, “for this whole week past the queen has been most kind to me.”
“Ah!”
“And to-day she called me ‘her Dear Branch, Lavarcham,’ and spoke with me for an hour.”
“Ah!” said Conachúr. “Have you been among her women?”
“I have, master.”
“And her men?”
“They too.”
“What have you found?”