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I
answered
,
too
,
the
summons
of
the
Lady
Om
,
following
a
sleek-faced
,
cat-footed
eunuch
through
quiet
palace
byways
to
her
apartments
.
She
lodged
as
a
princess
of
the
blood
should
lodge
.
She
,
too
,
had
a
palace
to
herself
,
among
lotus
ponds
where
grow
forests
of
trees
centuries
old
but
so
dwarfed
that
they
reached
no
higher
than
my
middle
.
Bronze
bridges
,
so
delicate
and
rare
that
they
looked
as
if
fashioned
by
jewel-smiths
,
spanned
her
lily
ponds
,
and
a
bamboo
grove
screened
her
palace
apart
from
all
the
palace
.
My
head
was
awhirl
.
Sea-cuny
that
I
was
,
I
was
no
dolt
with
women
,
and
I
sensed
more
than
idle
curiosity
in
her
sending
for
me
.
I
had
heard
love-tales
of
common
men
and
queens
,
and
was
a-wondering
if
now
it
was
my
fortune
to
prove
such
tales
true
.
The
Lady
Om
wasted
little
time
.
There
were
women
about
her
,
but
she
regarded
their
presence
no
more
than
a
carter
his
horses
.
I
sat
beside
her
on
deep
mats
that
made
the
room
half
a
couch
,
and
wine
was
given
me
and
sweets
to
nibble
,
served
on
tiny
,
foot-high
tables
inlaid
with
pearl
.
Lord
,
Lord
,
I
had
but
to
look
into
her
eyes
--
But
wait
.
Make
no
mistake
.
The
Lady
Om
was
no
fool
.
I
have
said
she
was
of
my
own
age
.
All
of
thirty
she
was
,
with
the
poise
of
her
years
.
She
knew
what
she
wanted
.
She
knew
what
she
did
not
want
.
It
was
because
of
this
she
had
never
married
,
although
all
pressure
that
an
Asiatic
court
could
put
upon
a
woman
had
been
vainly
put
upon
her
to
compel
her
to
marry
Chong
Mong-ju
.
He
was
a
lesser
cousin
of
the
great
Min
family
,
himself
no
fool
,
and
grasping
so
greedily
for
power
as
to
perturb
Yunsan
,
who
strove
to
retain
all
power
himself
and
keep
the
palace
and
Cho-Sen
in
ordered
balance
.
Thus
Yunsan
it
was
who
in
secret
allied
himself
with
the
Lady
Om
,
saved
her
from
her
cousin
,
used
her
to
trim
her
cousin
's
wings
.
But
enough
of
intrigue
.
It
was
long
before
I
guessed
a
tithe
of
it
,
and
then
largely
through
the
Lady
Om
's
confidences
and
Hendrik
Hamel
's
conclusions
.
The
Lady
Om
was
a
very
flower
of
woman
.
Women
such
as
she
are
born
rarely
,
scarce
twice
a
century
the
whole
world
over
.
She
was
unhampered
by
rule
or
convention
.
Religion
,
with
her
,
was
a
series
of
abstractions
,
partly
learned
from
Yunsan
,
partly
worked
out
for
herself
.
Vulgar
religion
,
the
public
religion
,
she
held
,
was
a
device
to
keep
the
toiling
millions
to
their
toil
.
She
had
a
will
of
her
own
,
and
she
had
a
heart
all
womanly
.
She
was
a
beauty
--
yes
,
a
beauty
by
any
set
rule
of
the
world
.
Her
large
black
eyes
were
neither
slitted
nor
slanted
in
the
Asiatic
way
.
They
were
long
,
true
,
but
set
squarely
,
and
with
just
the
slightest
hint
of
obliqueness
that
was
all
for
piquancy
.
I
have
said
she
was
no
fool
.
Behold
!
As
I
palpitated
to
the
situation
,
princess
and
sea-cuny
and
love
not
a
little
that
threatened
big
,
I
racked
my
cuny
's
brains
for
wit
to
carry
the
thing
off
with
manhood
credit
.
It
chanced
,
early
in
this
first
meeting
,
that
I
mentioned
what
I
had
told
all
the
Court
,
that
I
was
in
truth
a
Korean
of
the
blood
of
the
ancient
house
of
Koryu
.
"
Let
be
,
"
she
said
,
tapping
my
lips
with
her
peacock
fan
.
"
No
child
's
tales
here
.
Know
that
with
me
you
are
better
and
greater
than
of
any
house
of
Koryu
.
You
are
...
"
She
paused
,
and
I
waited
,
watching
the
daring
grow
in
her
eyes
.
"
You
are
a
man
,
"
she
completed
.
"
Not
even
in
my
sleep
have
I
ever
dreamed
there
was
such
a
man
as
you
on
his
two
legs
upstanding
in
the
world
.
"
