‘You evidently don’t consider yourself bad-looking,’ she said; and she was just going on to say something else when an enormous wolf, without a muzzle too, appeared coming round the side of the Palace.
‘There’s Mars,’ said Diana.
‘I don’t see him. I only see a horrible wolf, and——’
But the Goddess interrupted her.
‘Why, you stupid, that’s Mars’s wolf, and where it is Mars is sure to be, or he isn’t far off.’
‘But what does he want here?’ asked Ernalie.
‘He’s going to escort me to Jupiter’s ball, and he’ll be awfully impatient. However, he can wait. Now think, is there nothing?’
The Princess reflected a moment.
‘If I give it to you,’ she said, ‘you must do several things for it, and those quickly.’