As for the Prince, he thought that he was still asleep, till he saw that she was many times more beautiful than in his dreams, and he knew that he had found her at last.
the princess and the fairy
“You are more beautiful than anything else in the world,” he said, “and I love you better than my life!”
“And I love you with all my heart!” said the Little Princess.
“Will you marry me,” asked the Prince, “and live with me forever and ever?”
“That I will,” said the Princess, “and gladly, if my father, the King, and my mother, the Queen, will let me leave the Garden.”
And she told the Prince all about the wall with the triple gates.
The Prince saw that it would be no easy task to win the consent of the King and the Queen, so nothing would do but that he must travel back to the west and return with a proper retinue behind him.
So he bade the Princess good-by and rode bravely off toward the west.