Now after awhile Viola said, "Let us get down to the world again. We
cannot stay here for ever."

"Why not?" said the King. However, they walked to the brow of the
hill, and stood together gazing awhile over the sunlit earth that
had never been so beautiful to either of them; for their sight was
newly-washed with love, and all things were changed.

"Now I know how she looks from heaven," said the King, "and that is
like heaven itself. Let us go; for I think she will still look so at
our coming, seeing that we carry heaven with us."

So they went downhill to the forge, and there Viola said to her
lover, "I can stay no longer in this place where all men have known
me as a lad; and besides, a woman's home is where her husband
lives."

"But I live only in a Barn," said William the King.

"Then I will live there with you," said Viola, "and from this very
night. But first I will shoe Pepper anew, for she is so unequally
shod that she might spill us on the road. And that she may be shod
worthily of herself and of us, give me what you have tied up in your
blue handkerchief." The King fetched his handkerchief and unknotted
it, and gave her his crown and scepter; and she set him at the
bellows and made three golden shoes and shod the nag on her two
fore-feet and her off hind-foot. But when she looked at the near
hind-foot, which the King had shod last of all, she said: "I could
not make a better. And therefore, like his father, the Lad must shut