17/21 Once he had refused to go on this very trip; but then there had been the girl. Now there was only the Princess--and the Princess didn't count." "Like the hours that aren't sunshiny," interpreted David. "Like the hours when the sun does n't shine." "And then ?" prompted Jill. "Two more years passed, and the Princess grew to be twenty-one. She came into full control of her property then, and after a while she came back to the old stone house with the towers and turned it into a fairyland of beauty. |