PART IV
The six milkmaids were waiting for him in the apple-tree—no; Joscelyn was in the swing.
"And so," said Martin, sitting down on the bough, "on the sixth night the sixth Gorgon also became a maiden as lovely as her fellows, and gave the Wanderer the sixth key to the Tower. And they let out the Princess and set her in The Golden Truant, and she sailed away to her Squire a thousand leagues over the water. And everybody lived happily ever after."
"What a beautiful story!" said Jane. And they all thought so too.
"I knew from the first," said Joscelyn, "that it would have a happy ending."
"And so did I," said Joyce.
"And I," said Jennifer,
"And I," said Jessica,
"And I," said Jane and
"And I," said little Joan.