"It was a very short distance." It was about this time that they all noticed the fact that Andrew was wearing clothes of an altogether different fashion to the fisherman's garb in which they had seen him previously.

The Princess looked at him perplexed.

Cecil felt instinctively that the event which he had most dreaded was about to happen.
"And you came up here purposely to relieve our minds, Mr.Andrew," the Princess said.

"Really it is most kind of you.

I wish that there were some way--" She hesitated, a slight note of question in her tone, expressed also by her upraised eyebrows.
"I had a further reason for coming," Andrew said slowly.