Chapter FourWhen the Prince had gone, Vida lay for some time just staring ahead of her and trying to think about what he had said to her and what she felt.
But she found herself so bewildered by him that she was completely unable to decide what they should do.
Then suddenly she knew that the best thing would be to talk to Margit and see if she had learnt anything.
Moreover Margit, with her common sense and her down to earth attitude towards life, would perhaps take away the feeling of ecstasy that Vida had felt when the Prince had kissed her and she had touched the stars.
She knew that Margit was in fact not far away and that by this time the Prince would have returned to his room.
She had said yesterday after their arrival,
“The housekeeper’s been very kind and because The Castle’s
