People sympathised with him.

That is the most significant aspect of the affair.
Now it may seem a strange thing, but it is a fact that the giant Princess, when she came to England, knew of no other giants whatever.
She had lived in a world where tact is almost a passion and reservations the air of one's life.

They had kept the thing from her; they had hedged her about from sight or suspicion of any gigantic form, until her appointed coming to England was due.

Until she met young Redwood she had no inkling that there was such a thing as another giant in the world.
In the kingdom of the father of the Princess there were wild wastes of upland and mountains where she had been accustomed to roam freely.

She loved the sunrise and the sunset and all the great drama of the open heavens more than anything else in the world, but among a people at once so democratic and so vehemently loyal as the English her freedom was much restricted.