The old eunuch's face was truly that of a serpent, now.

The shrewd old eunuch suspected something more was amiss, I'm sure, but said nothing.

This theory was offered by Puyi in his biography, who claimed he heard it from an old eunuch.

"Are we children, to hide from that leathery old eunuch?"

Now I'm just a poor old eunuch trying to keep up my habit.

The old eunuch fixed me with a sharp eye.

He was relying heavily on Irene's advice, coupled with his own estimate of an old eunuch.

But he could read nothing whatever in the old eunuch's face.

Some time later, quietly by the servants' door came an old eunuch from Badia's household.

He knew the Master did not like older eunuchs to be present when he took his pleasure.