The sooner you are gone, the better I'll like it.

And I'll give orders to ensure your never darkening my doors again!" I tried to argue with her, to persuade her, to convince her, to induce her to listen to me.
She raged at me.
Dazed, I groped my way to my litter and, once in it, lost consciousness entirely, not in a faint, but in the sleep of total exhaustion.
As I rolled into my litter, feeling utterly unfit to enjoy a bath with any natural associates, I had ordered my bearers to take me home.
There I rested a while, for I waked before I reached home.

Then I bathed, ate a simple dinner, alone with Agathemer, and went at once to bed..