I am not sure I trust you.""You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

Were you lying?""I never lie," he said piously. "About what?""The sand, the snake."For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.

So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me.""While I think you'll marry Sophos.""I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.

A successful thief doesn't depend on things being unlikely to happen," I said.