He turned round to go back again, but found the door shut behind him.
"I'll just open one more." He opened it, and found himself in a most beautiful room, and there, lying on a couch fast asleep, was—the Princess Fortunata! Just like a story-book, isn't it?
Now it is just here that George's story begins to get a little patchy, like the counterpane.
He remembers trying to wake the Princess. She remained fast asleep in spite of all that he did. She was very beautiful, just like a pink and white rose, but he could not remember what dress she wore, or what the colour of her hair was, or anything else at all, so you must make up the rest of it for yourselves.
He woke her up at last. Did he kiss her, like the Prince in Sleeping Beauty? He never remembered—or said that he didn't remember. I wonder!
She opened her eyes and gazed at him, as if just awakening from a dream.
What did she say? What do princesses say to brave knights who rescue them from enchantment?
You may be sure that she said just the right things. Princesses always do. They are taught the right words to say by their governesses, in case they might become enchanted when they grow up. You never know what a fairy god-mother may do, especially if she be a bad fairy!
Now came the hardest part of all—to escape with the Princess from the enchanted castle.
The Princess took George gently by the hand like a nice, kind, grown-up sister, and said: "We must hasten. In another moment the wicked magician will be here, and then we are lost!"