“You are my Snow Princess!”
“Where are we going?” she asked.
“You will see in a moment,” he answered. “It’s a surprise.”
The servants brought her a hood of white velvet also trimmed with white fox fur and the Prince himself set it on her head. He tied the ribbons that fastened it beneath her small chin.
“My dream come true!” he said in his deep voice and she felt herself thrill at the passion in his eyes.
He led her through the orange blossom trees until surprisingly they came upon an enormous sleigh.
It was quite the strangest sleigh that Alida had ever seen, carved, gilded and decorated with strange devices that it might have been part of a Fairytale.
The normal high curved back was there, but there was no box for the coachman or shafts for the horses, only more carving and gildin
