But with the dawn everything changed! A thousand servants set to work, and in one short half hour the garden showed green.

Green carpets, green trees, green water falling from the fountains like liquid emeralds.

And by-and-bye came green crowds, every shade of green mixing and mingling in harmony.

And inside the arched pavilion of the house of Good Fortune were green rustlings of silk, green shimmerings of satin as three hundred ladies of the Court, all veiled with green veils, took their seats in a semicircle.

Three hundred ladies in green all dressed alike! Which was Queen Humeeda?
_That_, it was the part of a child of four to tell, a child who had not seen his mother for two and a half years! The crowd outside, pale green, sage green, emerald green, leaf green, were hushed to silence, waiting; but from every thicket of rose and jasmine a chorus of singing birds, deftly concealed in cages behind the leaves, filled the air as Humayon and his little son advanced to take their places.