Perhaps she feared the princess as she would have dreaded a rival; since she longed with all her passionate, tender heart to win Max for herself only.

It would have been an easy task, as princess, to win him or any man; but if she could win him as Yolanda, the burgher girl, the prize would be the greatest that could fall to a woman.
The true situation dawned upon me as I stood before Max and watched Yolanda.

I thought of her adroit plan to make trouble with France, and I wanted to shout for joy.

The impossible might yet happen.

God's hand surely had been in our journeying to Burgundy.