It was so unusual and different from anything she had seen before that for a moment she wondered just why it seemed to mean so much to the Prince.
And why he had never, as he said, brought anyone here.
Then before she could ask him any questions, he said very quietly,
“This is an ancient wishing well. It is so old that it was here almost before this country had people living in it and certainly very few houses.”
“A wishing well!” she exclaimed. “How exciting, how did you find it, Your Royal Highness?”
“From very antique records that most people would find impossible to read. I had them deciphered by the most brilliant professors in our University.”
He sighed before he went on,
“They took a long time before they finally found that it was a wishing well and it had been believed by the
