As to why I fear, it is because I seem to feel the near shadow of some woman lying cold upon me and building a wall of blackness between his Highness and myself." "It is but a dream, Princess." "Mayhap.

I hope so.

Yet I think otherwise.

Oh! Ana, cannot you, who study the hearts of men and women, understand my case?
I have married where I can never hope to be loved as other women are, I who am a wife, yet not a wife.

I read your thought; it is--why then did you marry?
Since I have told you so much I will tell you that also.