The man selling the tickets seemed to take a long time and there were difficulties over change, which made their progress slow.
Then one of the doorkeepers was bowing low and opening the door wider for a couple who were obviously not required to purchase tickets.
Tilda looked at them and felt her heart give a little leap.
It was the couple she had seen in the woods by the Linderhof! She would have known them anywhere.
There was no mistaking the handsome face of Rudolph, who was wearing the same Bavarian clothes he had worn that morning.
But Mitzi on the other hand was very resplendent.
Her green evening gown, cut very low and daring, was decorated with bunches of green ostrich feathers and she had a long boa of the same feathers around her shoulders.
There were jewels sparkling in h
