"Mary Stewart - The Arthurian Saga 03 - The Last Enchanment" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stewart Mary)

I'm sorry about that.
' "I've seen him.
There's no real damage.

It will take a week, no more.

But you--you look exhausted.

Merlin.

You should be given time to rest.

' "And am I not to be?

' As he hesitated, I lifted a brow at him.

"Come, out with it.
What don't you want to say to me?

' The wary look broke into something like a grin.

But his voice, suddenly formal, was quite expressionless, the voice of
a courtier who is not quite sure which way, as they say, the deer will
run.

"Prince Merlin, the King has desired me to bid you to his apartments.

He wants to see you as soon as it is convenient for you.

' As he spoke his eye lingered on the door in the wall opposite the
window.

Until last night Arthur had slept in that annexe of my chamber, and had
come and gone at my bidding.
Ralf caught my eye, and the grin became real.

"In other words, straight away," he said.

I'm sorry.
Mer- lin, but that's the message as it came to me through the
chamberlain.

They might have left it till morning.

I was assuming you would be asleep.

' "Sorry?
For what?

Kings have to start somewhere.