She had not far to go.
The suite given over to the new crown princess was within the wing of the
palace in which the royal family lived. Masanath noted with a little
trepidation that her door was very near to the portals over which was the
winged sun, carven and portentous. Here were the chambers of her lord,
the heir.
Within her own apartments, she was attended multitudinously.
Ladies-in-waiting bent at her elbow; soft-fingered daughters of nobility
habited her in purple-edged robes; flitting apparitions, in a distant
chamber, glimpsed through a vista, laid a table of viands for her, to
which she was led with many soft flatteries; her every wish was
anticipated; all her trepidation conspicuously overlooked; her rank
religiously observed in all speech and behavior. And of all her retinue,
she was the least complacent.
After her sumptuous meal, she was informed that a member of her private
train had come to Tanis from Memphis, ten days agone, in a state of great
concern and had awaited all that time in the palace till she should
arrive. Now that she had come, the servitor insisted on seeing the
princess and would not be denied. Troubled and wondering, Masanath
ordered that he be brought.
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