Queen Coo-ee-oh, who had her face turned the other way
and did not see the disapproving look




Chapter Nine

Lady Aurex



Lady Aurex led Ozma and Dorothy along a street to a
pretty marble house near to one edge of the great glass
dome that covered the village. She did not speak to the
girls until she had ushered them into a pleasant room,
comfortably furnished, nor did any of the solemn people
they met on the street venture to speak.

When they were seated Lady Aurex asked if they were
hungry, and finding they were summoned a maid and
ordered food to be brought.

This Lady Aurex looked to be about twenty years old,
although in the Land of Oz where people have never
changed in appearance since the fairies made it a
fairyland -- where no one grows old or dies -- it is
always difficult to say how many years anyone has
lived. She had a pleasant, attractive face, even though
it was solemn and sad as the faces of all Skeezers