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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: which the prince, seeing that she was done, hurried back to the
garden where she had left him and pretended to be gathering the
golden fruit and jewel flowers.
The queen said nothing to him good or bad, except to command him
to grind at the great stone mill as he had done on the other side
of the water. Thereupon the prince did as she bade, and presently
the brazen boat came skimming over the water more swiftly than
the wind. Again the queen and the prince entered it, and again it
carried them to the other side whence they had come.
No sooner had the queen set foot upon the shore than she stopped
and gathered up a handful of sand. Then, turning as quick as
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