Only when they were both breathless did he say in a voice that sounded unsteady,
“I must let you rest. But tell me first what I want to know.”
Because she was too bemused by his kisses to argue any further or even to think that it might be a mistake to do as he asked, Tora said,
“I did not mean to listen – I – was waiting for the Professor – and was not aware that there was anybody at the inn.”
“Then, if you did not see who was talking, how did you know that it was Prince Boris in the room above you?”
“When they talked of their – revolutionary plans,” Tora replied, “his friends toasted him as – ‘King Boris’!”
She only whispered the words as if she felt afraid that even the trees and flowers were listening and constituted a danger to them both.
Mikloš did not smile at what she had sa
