Sometimes I think it will be better to make some stupid person--say Ganesha here, for instance--king, and for ourselves to be the power behind the throne.

What do _you_ think, Athelstan ?" "I think," he answered.
"And you observe that the Gray Mahatma likewise thinks!" said she.

"He thinks what he can do to thwart us! But I am not afraid! Oh dear no, Mahatma-ji, I am not at all fearful! Your secret is not worth ten seconds' purchase unless it is of use to me!" "Woman, is your word worth nothing ?" asked the Gray Mahatma.

"You can not use what you know and keep the secret too.

Let those two men escape, and the secret will be blown to the winds within the hour." She laughed outright at him.
"They shall not escape, old raven-in-a-robe!" Just then some of her women brought a table in, and spread it with fruit-laden dishes at the far end of the room.