17/21 Yet she still felt sure he was mistaken, he _must_ be the picture she remembered. "If you are not the picture, who are you then ?" "I pass my time," said the figure, somewhat irrelevantly, "between this room, where I was killed and the 'Salle des Caryatides,' where I was married. On the whole I prefer this room." "Are you--can you be--Henry the Fourth ?" exclaimed Sylvia. "Oh! poor Henry the Fourth, I am so afraid of them coming to kill you again. Come, let us run quick to the old apple-woman, she will take care of you till we find grandmother." She in turn held out her hand. |