CHAPTER FOURThe next morning the Prince and Sacia departed before the Duca had come down to breakfast.
They went to the stables and asked for their horses to be saddled.
Then, having tipped the grooms, they led them over the drawbridge and through the wood.
When they reached the open fields by which they had approached the Castle last night, the Prince helped Sacia to mount her horse and he mounted his.
“That was very unexpected,” Sacia piped up, “and we never guessed when we thought we were looking for a small house that we would find that huge Castle.”
“It was certainly interesting,” the Prince agreed, “and I very much admired the Duca’s pictures.”
“So did I and as you were so fascinated by them it is obvious to me that you have some of your own.”
“I have a few,” the Prince admitt
