CHAPTER XV.
_The King's Cheque_.
When they all wakened next morning, their first ideas were confused.

It is often confusing to waken in a strange bed, much more so when you have flown through the air, like the king, the queen, and Benson the butler.
For her part, the queen was the most perplexed of all; for she did undeniably wake, and yet she was not at home, where she had expected to be.

However, she was a determined woman, and stood to it that nothing unusual was occurring.

The butler made up his mind to claim the crown princeship and the hand of the Lady Molinda; because, as he justly remarked to William, here was such a chance to better himself as might not soon come in his way again.

As for the king, he was only anxious to get back to Falkenstein, and have the whole business settled in a constitutional manner.