After meeting all the pretenders in the garden, I made my first selection. Thus, as I met the whole of them once more in the Hall of Flowering Climbers, their number had been reducted to about fifty. On that day, I told them: “I am flattered by your company and the attentions you all had toward me. You should know how much I enjoyed conversating with all of you. Starting from tomorrow, though, I shall meet you without hearing your sweet voices anymore”. Such a statement by me left the girl stranded, but I proceeded in my explanations nonetheless: “I shall meet you, one after another, in the Library of the Palace”. You should know, my dear Domenir, how, although the greatest and most prestigious Library in the Kingdom was located on the highmost levels of the Temple of Ghaladar, anyway th

