Just then Mars appeared round the corner, looking very bad-tempered.
‘If you are coming at all, you’d better come at once.’
So Diana said:
‘Very well, to-morrow evening I shall be here.’
And she drove her chariot towards the God of War, and when he had got in they turned the corner of the house and disappeared.
Just then the King came into the garden from the library window.
‘What have you been doing?’ he asked her. ‘I’ve been watching you for some minutes from the window, and you’ve been going on in the most extraordinary manner, talking and laughing, just as if you had been speaking to some one.’
The Princess brushed back her hair from her face.
‘Oh! I didn’t know you could see me,’ she said. ‘It’s nothing—only a little surprise I’ve been preparing for you.’
‘Indeed, you surprise me,’ the King said.