Lady-in-waiting

      I stared at the officer.  “She left this . . . for me?  Did she say why?”
      He shook his head, bored.  “She told me to give it to the big fan-qui. Nothing more.”
      “But she said she was going to wait!”
      “Oh, aye.” He stopped in the act of lounging off.  “She told me to say . . . that she would always be waiting.”  He shrugged. “Whatever that may mean.”


Flashman and the Dragon, p.96, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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