CHAPTER THREEFor what seemed a long time Tora could not find her voice.
Then with an effort she looked away from the stranger and replied,
“It is – nothing – and you have no – right to question me!”
He laughed softly.
Then he said,
“Are you saying that we have not been introduced? That is easily remedied. What is your name?”
Because she was bemused and embarrassed and still very frightened Tora answered him without thinking,
“Tora.”
As she spoke, she felt that she had given herself away. Then she remembered that nobody outside the Palace knew her as anything but Viktorina.
There was a pause before the man asked,
“Is that all?”
She nodded and he said,
“Very well, if you wish to be mysterious, I accept you as ‘Tora’ and my name is Mikloš.”
Tora knew that Mikloš, which was the Sa
