122 Make-Believe
do for him. The Queen is proud be-

cause he is her servant, and so he marches
on.

“Do you notice that the music is
changed? The mothers and sweethearts
have gone, but the Queen still watches.
These are all old men. The first one
looks as though he would have hardly
strength enough to walk if you took him
off the horse, and the man beside him has
lost an arm, and the empty sleeve is pinned
across his chest. But when they come to
where the Queen sits watching, they do
not feel old any longer, and they are just
as proud as the young men were just
now.”

The music changed.

“The Queen is proud of these men, too,
but they go by without looking up at her,
and I fancy they think she is ashamed of
them. Their swords are broken and some
have lost their helmets. Some are wound-
ed and have bandages round their heads,