Same.
"I've laid my hands on the right means of communicating with them."
The adviser said to his queen. Which the queen took her turn in telling the other lots what had just been said.
The Professor felt that quite irrelevant. The other women of course weren't deaf and could hear him say that to the queen, why then did the queen keep elongating the discourse.
"If it pleases you now, let's get to it."
He concluded. The queen didn't say that to the women that time. The adviser was tempted to almost scorn her into doing that, but he remembered that to the women of Curt he was no Professor but an adviser.
Only the set of women, the queen and the adviser were present. Even Igen seemed to had left the royal business to those who would take it seriously.
And of course the chittering creatures were getting nauseous and they didn't hide it. Their sequence of the deep sound from their throttle kept an awkward rhythm coming on and on.