"Of course. How stupid I am!" declared Nidia. "And so you know their
language and have to look after them? Isn't it very exciting?"
"No; deplorably prosaic. There are points of interest about the work,
though."
"And you keep them in order, and know all that's going on?"
"We try to; and I think on the whole we succeed fairly well."
But at that very moment Shiminya the sorcerer was dooming to death two
persons, and filling with seditious venom the minds of three chiefs of
importance within the speaker's district.