Linetta could not help thinking it was very strange, at the same time wonderful, that the same music which she had learnt from her mother had appealed to the Prince in the same way as it had to her father.
They rode on for a while before the Prince said,
“Because of what I thought last night and in a way I suppose it is something I have felt before, I am now taking you to a place that somehow connects me with your music, you and another world far away from the strife and deceit of this one.”
Linetta did not ask him any questions.
She merely glanced at him and he then said, as if she had spoken,
“It is a very special place I go to when I am feeling worried or perplexed and where I have never taken anyone else.”
“You are just making me more and more curious, Your Royal Highness,” Linet
