Then it fell; and she said: "They'd never let me--never." "But you'd never ask them," said the Terror.

"You'd just slip away and come with us.

We've kept our knowing you so dark that they'd never dream you were with us in the knoll caves." The princess was charmed, even dazzled, by the glorious prospect.

She had come to feel strongly that by far the best part of her life was the afternoons she spent with the Twins in the wood; whole days with them would be beyond the delight of dreams.

But to her unadventured soul the difficulties seemed beyond all surmounting.