And the trains joined behind, the lady bore

Her beauteous head askance, yet wist full well

How the Prince looked and spoke; unwittingly,

With the strange female sense and secret eye,

Made of him there her subtile estimate,

Forecast his lot, and thought how all things flow

To those who have a surfeit. Could the great,

The perfect Queen, she marvelled, truly know

And love him at his value? In his turn,

He read her face as ’twere a marble urn