After this I became aware that the regal-looking woman called Khania, was always in the room, and that she seemed to be nursing Leo with great care and tenderness.

Sometimes even she nursed me when Leo did not need attention, and she had nothing else to do, or so her manner seemed to suggest.

It was as though I excited her curiosity, and she wished me to recover that it might be satisfied.
Again I awoke, how long afterwards I cannot say.

It was night, and the room was lighted by the moon only, now shining in a clear sky.

Its steady rays entering at the window-place fell on Leo's bed, and by them I saw that the dark, imperial woman was watching at his side.