’I cannot tell you what would happen,’ returned Monck drily. ’So far as my experience extends, I have never seen it attempted.’ ’Truly, these are sumptuous quarters,’ said Armeath, gazing round at the richly furnished rooms. ’You will find your sleeping apartments equally comfortable, with marble baths attached, where you can have a swim before breakfast if it so please you. Also, you will see there is an ample wardrobe from which to select your Court dress’—— ’Eh, what’s that? Are we to put on Court dress, sir?’ Jack stared, and looked first at the engineer and then at his guardian in serio-comic distress. ’Must we do that? We’ve never been used to that sort of thing, you know!’ ’What does that matter?’ said Gerald. ’When one goes to Rome one must do as Rome does.’ A little while later the two chums were looking over a collection of the most gorgeous raiment they had ever set eyes upon. Gerald viewed the dazzling costumes with enthusiastic admiration; but Jack was inclined to regard them almost with disfavour. ’Beautiful! Splendid!’ exclaimed Gerald. ’Just what I have seen in my sleep when I was a child, and I used to gaze at the stars and dream that I went up into the heavens to visit them! In those dreams I went from one star to another, and saw the most charming countries and places, and all the good people in them were dressed in clothes something like these.’ ’And how were the bad ones dressed?’ asked Jack quizzically. ’There weren’t any,’ Gerald declared stoutly. ’What! No ogres, or giants, or bad fairies? However, it’s odd, now, to think of those old dreams of yours! I remember how you used to recount them to us afterwards. It’s curious to think how, after all, they seem to be coming true, isn’t it?’ ’Yes,’ answered Gerald slowly, as the dreamy, far-away look came again into his eyes. ’But this is only the beginning. If they are all coming true, we have experiences before us more wonderful even than anything that has happened yet! Perhaps it will turn out so. Who can tell?’ ’Well, I’ve got to that state of mind now that I sha’n’t be so very much surprised if they do; and if they don’t, I ’m quite content with what we have in hand,’ said practical-minded Jack. Their two attendants were lodged in adjacent rooms, so that they might be within call when wanted. Presently, Gerald looked in upon them to see how they were getting on, and was much amused to see Reid staring blankly at a heap of clothes, much as Jack had been doing but a little while before. These costumes, it is true, were much plainer and less pretentious; but they were, nevertheless, far finer clothes than either of the two worthies had ever yet worn, or ever expected to. ’Why, Bob, what’s the matter?’ Gerald asked. ’You look as dismal as if you were going to have a tooth out!’