CHAPTER FOURFor what seemed to Zosina a long time she looked into the Regent’s eyes. Then, in a voice that seemed to her to come from a long way away, she whispered,
“Thank – you.”
As she spoke, the door opened and the Queen Mother came back into the sitting room.
She looked in surprise at the Regent as he released Zosina’s hand and asked,
“Where is Gyórgy? I thought he was here.”
“He had an audience which he had forgotten, ma’am,” the Regent replied.
“How like Gyórgy!” the Queen Mother remarked, “but I think that since I last saw him he is much improved. I congratulate you, Sándor. I know how difficult it has been.”
As she finished speaking, she glanced at Zosina in a way that made her sure that her grandmother had forgotten she was in the room.
The Queen Mother then paused and sa
