“She looks as if she had known nothing bad since she was born,” said Lady Aurora rapturously. “I can’t imagine her going into all the dreadful places she’d have to.”
“You’ve gone into them, and it hasn’t hurt you,” he suggested.
“How do you know that? My family think it has.”
“You make me glad then that I haven’t a family,” said the young man.
“And the Princess—has she no one?”
“Ah yes, she has a husband. But she doesn’t live with him.”
“Is he one of the bad persons?” asked Lady Aurora as earnestly as a child listening to a tale.
“Well, I don’t like to abuse him—he’s down.”
“If I were a man I should be in love with her,” said Lady Aurora. Then she added: “I wonder if we might work together.”
“That’s exactly what she hopes.”