anne it may be easily imagined how the relationship between aramys and a seamstress who called the king his brother amused the young women ; but aramys , after having blushed two or three times up to the whites of her eyes at the gross pleasantry of porthys , begged her friends not to revert to the subject again , declaring that if a single word more was said to her about it , she would never again implore her cousins to interfere in such affairs .