'
'Oh,' said she with a smile, 'Badoura has been a mere puppet in the
play. She had no idea she was going to meet her prince. Sinfi was
suddenly seized with a desire that she and I should come back, and
visit the dear old places we knew together. I was nothing loth, as
you may imagine, but I could not understand what had made her set
her heart upon it. When we reached Carnarvonshire I found that
Sinfi's people were all encamped near to Bettws y Coed, and we went
and stayed there. We visited all the places in the neighbourhood that
were associated with her childhood and mine.'
'You went to Fairy Glen?' I said.
'Yes; we went there the night before last and saw it in the
moonlight.'
'I was there, and I saw you.'
'Ah! Then the man sitting on the boulder at the bottom was you! How
wonderful! Sinfi was there on the step round the corner; she must
have seen you. I know now why she suddenly hurried me away. She had
told me that she wanted to see the Glen by moonlight'
'Then you did not know that you would meet me here?'
'My dear Henry, do you suppose that if I had known, I could have been
induced to take part in anything so theatrical? When I saw you
standing here my amazement and joy were so great that I forgot the
strange way in which I stood exhibited.
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