I had risen, smiling.
"You need not have taken so much trouble, Thusis——"
"Pardon. It is what servants are hired for."
"Why do you keep up this masquerade with me?" I asked, laughingly, taking the cup from the tray.
But Thusis seemed to be in no pleasant humor, and she turned to go without answering.
"Thusis!"
She halted.
"I'm sorry those beastly kings annoyed you at table——"
"They're men," she retorted angrily. "What can a woman expect?"
"Do you think that is fair to me, Thusis, to lump me with men in general?"