"Oh, I sleep when I feel like it. You see, I have nothing else to do."
Cora wondered. Nothing to do?
"Besides, we were waiting up for you, and I could not go to sleep until you came."
"You expected me?"
"For days. We knew you were in the mountains."
"How?" asked Cora.
"Because one of our men followed you. He said you almost caught him."
Cora vaguely remembered the man under the auto when they had been stalled in the hills. That must have been the fellow.
"My friends," stammered Cora, "my brother will be ill of fright, and my mother——"
"Now, my dear," said the queen, "if you will only trust me, I shall do all I can for you. I might even get word to your brother. I love brothers. Once I had one."