‘Of course I do. Why should I have told you if I hadn’t wanted you to?’
‘Yes, that’s all very well,’ said the unbelieving Prince; ‘but how do you do it?’
‘I just make myself invisible, and then I make people do everything I like; they have to do it, or else I tease them till they do. But let’s come into the house and I’ll tell you all about it. But why are you holding me so tightly?’
‘I am afraid that you will suddenly vanish as you did once before, and I don’t want that—you’ve been away from me long enough.’
‘Oh, but I won’t leave you again, Treblo,’ she said, ‘I promise that—that is, if you don’t want me to.’
‘Then you won’t leave me, dear?’ he said; ‘for I shall never want to lose sight of you again.’
So they went in, and the Princess told him what you know already—if you haven’t skipped it. But all the same he did not leave go of her, and I don’t think it was from mistrust.
Ernalie finished relating her story, and the Prince was beginning:
‘My dearest Ernalie, how can I——’ when the door opened, and the King came in.