He stood at a turn in the gallery up which she was ascending. As their eyes met, the distant, wind-blown music, the subtle fragrance of flowers, seemed to bring into this palace of mystery and enchantment the fields and meadows of Rysdale. There she and David were again together, vowing their first love. The harmonies of brooks, birds, the ripples that sped their canoe past woodland and down shaded valleys, the thousand intimate details of the springtide loved of lovers, were about them once more. For the David who stood beside her in the queen's treasure-house was the David of that far-off, peaceful countryside, not the strange being she had met for that brief dark moment in front of Sajipona's palace. At the first glance she could see he had passed through some vital change since then. He was no longer as a man walking in dreams. There was no troubled uncertainty in his face, no faltering in his step. He came to her now, all his soul in his eyes, but with perplexed look for all that, as if the destiny that had parted them had not yet consented to their reunion. "I have been dreaming," he said simply. "It was an old dream, I find. Now that I am awake, some lights and shadows from my dream-world remain to haunt me." His brief explanation of the strange mental experience he had just been through was scarcely needed. Una told him how they had searched for him, how they had finally heard of this cave and of his first adventure in it. And then, how, tracking him to this place, they had met Sajipona and learned of the wonders of her underground kingdom. "We are awaiting the festival now," she said wistfully. "She told me of it, and sent me here to meet you. I think it must have begun already. The music--it must be the music for the Gilded Man--has grown louder and louder as I have climbed this wonderful gallery. Sajipona and the rest will meet us--it must be just there, beyond." They had clasped each other's hands, their eyes looked their fill. But now they stood apart, their faces averted, words of passionate avowal unuttered on David's lips. "The festival! I know!" David exclaimed.