This was a day that everyone in Horsmarlonerpool had being looking forward to for weeks.

Everyone had it in their diaries in big letters - ‘The Ball at the Palace’.

Since Helen and Jensen had returned from the Skylands with news that Prince Barnaby and Princess Agnetha had invited the whole town to a ball, everyone had been making new clothes and practicing their dancing. Nobody, aside from Lord and Lady Devonroe, had ever been to a royal palace before - let alone a proper, official ball.