She was speaking seriously and once again she saw that Prince Kraus’s eyes were twinkling.
“You are far too young and too beautiful to worry about other people. Why are you not, like most women do, thinking about yourself?”
“I suppose it’s all my mother’s fault for having a famous herb garden, and for letting me help her to heal the people who came to visit her when every doctor had failed. They all went away well and happy because she knew what they really needed.”
“Then I can only state that I am very grateful you have come here to Oldessa. If you can make me a complete man again, I will lay all my Kingdom at your feet.”
“I might,” replied Latasha, “ask you for one of your magnificent horses, but only if you are well enough to race me in the same way I was racing with Prince Stefa
