"Why didn't you wake me at seven o'clock?"
"Your highness was sleeping so soundly, I dared not; your highness was not well yesterday...."
"And so you just let me sleep? Very well.... Send word to her majesty ... that I am not well."
The man looked at him anxiously:
"What is the matter with your highness?"
"I don't know, Andro ... I am a little tired. Where's Djalo?"
"Here, highness...."
The collie ran in noisily, put its great paws on the camp-bed, wriggled its haunches wildly to and fro as it wagged its tail....
Then, suddenly, it lay down quietly beside the bed.
The empress sent back to say that she would come at once; she was not yet dressed.... With calm, open eyes Othomar lay waiting for her.