It was then, of course, that the girl became the Princess, but the boy did not realize that--just then.

To him she was still 'the girl.' "For three years he did not see her.

She was at school, or traveling abroad, he heard.

He, too, had been away to school, and was, indeed, just ready to enter college.

Then, that summer, he heard that she was coming to the old home, and his heart sang within him.