“Why have you been crying?” he asked.
The tears overflowed as he spoke and ran down her cheeks.
He was waiting for her to answer and, in a voice that seemed to come from very far away, she whispered through lips that trembled,
“I thought – I would – never see you – again.”
“Did you really think I could lose you?” the King asked and his arms went round her.
He pulled her against him and, as she gave a little gasp, his lips came down on hers.
She felt as if she had been swept from the very depths of hell into a Heaven that was so dazzlingly glorious that she must close her eyes for fear of being blinded.
The King kissed her until she was one with him again and they were indivisible.
Then at last in a voice that was curiously unsteady he asked,
“How could you have done anything so wi
