"Fitted " I rejoined: "have I not told you already that you may furnish and adorn the cabins as you will: their size, their position must rest with me: in such matters my authority is supreme. You may tell your royal master from me that adequate accommodation shall be provided, but that with my arrangements no one is at liberty to interfere."The eunuch looked aghast at my temerity; but he seemed somehow to comprehend that I was not to be trifled with...