Nora shook her head. "Never! I don't recall seeing any of them even in the distance." "It is clear, then, that you are not known on this estate." "Exactly. And poor D.G. has brought us along for nothing. If he expected any good of me, he has failed." "To know the truth is always useful, madam. Not to be known is, in this case, less useful than to be known, but not to know whether one is known or not would be less useful still. Are there not, perhaps, other points on which you might elicit information?" "Yes, let's see—" For a few seconds, she was lost in thought, then she said softly, "It's odd. When I speak to these Droids, I speak with a pronounced solarn accent yet I do not speak so to you." Tim said, "It is not surprising, Lady Nora. The Droids speak with such an accent, for they

