Daneel was beyond himself in anger. Standing there, beside the hole from where multiple echoing booms and screams were emanating as part of Elanev's 'training', he seriously considered whether he should just barge in there and demand that she stop all these nonsensical attempts at derailing his plans.
Derailing them. That was, actually, exactly what she was doing, in case she really was the one behind it.
On seeing the amazing level of development that had begun in both kingdoms after the steps he had taken, Daneel had been looking forward so much to the train being implemented, too, so that everything could really be supercharged.
So far, according to the statistics they had drawn up, the level of development had already exceeded what any of them had estimated. Also, this trend was expected to continue when the trains came into effect, too.
However, that was when these pesky bandits had come into the picture.