temeraire could not but fret anxiously at laurence 's absence , though he had for comfort a splendid dispatch newly arrived from peking , in which huang li had not only reported the egg 's continuing perfect condition , but even , to temeraire 's delight , enclosed a small illustration of the pavilion in which the egg was housed , at the summer palace , showing it attended by four ladies-in-waiting and four imperial dragons , and being fanned by servants against the late summer 's heat .