I had accepted Mr.Trelawny's reasoning that if the Queen were indeed such as we surmised--such as indeed we now took for granted--there would not be any opposition on her part; for we were carrying out her own wishes to the very last.

So far I was at ease--far more at ease than earlier in the day I should have thought possible; but there were other sources of trouble which I could not blot out from my mind.

Chief amongst them was Margaret's strange condition.

If it was indeed that she had in her own person a dual existence, what might happen when the two existences became one?
Again, and again, and again I turned this matter over in my mind, till I could have shrieked out in nervous anxiety.

It was no consolation to me to remember that Margaret was herself satisfied, and her father acquiescent.