“That is just what I really want. Can you imagine anything worse than being shut up in one of those dreadful small Kingdoms with a number of people with scarcely a brain between any of them and having nothing to do but open Flower Shows or present prizes?”
“What do you want to do?” he asked quizzically.
“For one thing I want to see the world. For another and of course more important, to be sure of my ancestry.”
“I cannot imagine how you have been allowed to talk about what the family found astonishing at the time, but brought them great happiness. Although there was a certain amount of gossip it has, I think, been forgotten as the years passed.”
Princess Zelda chuckled.
“Don’t believe it! I hear people whispering when I enter a ballroom. If I go within hearing distance of what they ar
