I have given a like coat to the Prince.

Let it be your duty to see that it is upon his sacred person day and night.

Let it be your duty also, if need arises, with this sword to defend him to the death.
Farewell." "May all the gods reject me from the Fields of the Blessed if I fail in this trust," I answered, and departed wondering, to seek sleep which, as it chanced, I was not to find for a while.
For as I went down the corridor, led by one of the ladies of the household, whom should I find waiting at the end of it but old Pambasa to inform me with many bows that the Prince needed my presence.

I asked how that could be seeing he had dismissed me for the night.

He replied that he did not know, but he was commanded to conduct me to the private chamber, the same room in which I had first seen his Highness.