Now if something could happen to us to make my father look like the Princess' and my mother hold her heart with both hands, and if no one were to know about it like they had said, how were we any different from Pryors?
We might be of the Lord's anointed, but we could get into the same kind of trouble the infidels could, and have secrets ourselves, or at least it seemed as if it might be very nearly the same, when it made father and mother look and act the way they did.
I wondered if we'd have to leave our lovely, lovely home, cross a sea and be strangers in a strange land, as Laddie said; and if people would talk about us, and make us feel that being a stranger was the loneliest, hardest thing in all the world.

Well, if mysteries are like this, and we have to live with one days and years, the Lord have mercy on us! Then I saw the money lying on the table, so I took it and put it in the Bible.

Then I went out and climbed the catalpa tree to watch for Laddie.
Soon I saw a funny thing, such as I never before had seen.

Coming across the fields, straight toward our house, sailing over the fences like a bird, came the Princess on one of her horses.

Its legs stretched out so far its body almost touched the ground, and it lifted up and swept over the rails.