And yet for all this the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again.
And through all this the king just stared at her with his mouth open; when she smiled at him, he smiled too, but when she got annoyed with him, the king would flatter her to win her back.
