Female DelightsChapter 18 Demands
About mid-morning Princess Zubeydeh sent word via a somewhat less than happy Chief Eunuch that she was asking for a brief audience. The Chief Eunuch was worried at this breach of the natural order of things. To his mind, there could be nothing worrying a woman, even the mother of the Emir, which could not wait until the Emir commanded her presence before him. For the Emir it provided a welcome break from the utter boredom of the economic problems of a country earning too much foreign...