know."

"Yes, we know!" everyone said at once.

## Chapter 2

"Annie, wake up!" Gwendolyn shouted, hopping onto Annie's bed.

Annie opened one bleary eye and peered at her sister. "It's still dark out. Why do _I_ have to wake up so early?"

"Because I need to talk to you about Beldegard." Gwendolyn stretched out on Annie's bed and turned to face her sister. "Do you think I've been hasty in agreeing to marry him so soon? I met him only a few weeks ago."

Annie sighed and opened her other eye. "Ordinarily, I'd say that you and Beldegard went way too fast, but you _know_ he's the love of your life. He has to be, because it was his kiss that woke you from the curse."

"But I hardly know him! What if heTyne. "He's handsome even without it!"

The princes all knew what happened when they were near Annie, having been near her before, but none of them seemed to care much.

"Tell me, how was your trip here?" Emilio asked Willa.

Annie gave him a grateful glance when the twins began to chatter about everything they had seen on the way there. When she heard a sound at the next table, she glanced at her own sister. Gwendolyn was nibbling on a quail egg while a serving maid offered a platter of beef to Beldegard. Annie noticed that the prince had helped himself to the best-looking slice and placed it on Gwendolyn's plate.

"Oh, Beldegard," breathed Gwendolyn. "You are so chivalrous!"

"I can't stand to look at them," grumbled Prince Digby. "The way they