“Stay,” said Masago, “I have a message for you to carry to your mistress. Say this for me: ‘She who is now Princess Sado-ko sets free your maid. She wishes with all her heart she had done likewise with the nightingale.’”
Natsu-no touched with her head the hem of Masago’s robe.
“You are a gracious princess,” she murmured.
CHAPTER XXVIII
“THE GODS KNEW BEST!”
CHAPTER XXVIII
“THE GODS KNEW BEST!”
IT wanted but a few hours before the noon wedding when Sado-ko, appearing on her balcony, looked down into the garden, where her lover waited. Down the little flight of stairs straight to him she went, silently accepting from his hands flowers. Her eyes were fixed upon his face lovingly, but anxiously.