"Build castles in the air?" suggested Lady Albury.
"That's just it."
"Very often. But they never come true."
"Never have come true,—exactly. I had a castle in the air, and in the castle lived a knight." She was still ashamed to say that the inhabitant of the castle was an Angel of Light. "I wanted to find out whether he was the knight who lived there. He was."
"And you were not quite sure till to-day?"
"I have been sure a long time. But when we walked out on that Sunday I was such an idiot that I did not know how to tell him. Oh, Lady Albury, I was such a fool! What should I have done if he hadn't come back?"
"Sent for him."
"Never;—never! I should have been miserable always! But now I am so happy."
"He is the real knight?"
"Oh, yes; indeed. He is the real,—real knight, that has always been living in my castle."