"Is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind--yes, kind, that is the chief thing," thought Princess Mary; and fear, which she had seldom experienced, came upon her.

She feared to look round, it seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the dark corner.

And this someone was he--the devil--and he was also this man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips.