If I showed you what was in my heart,” she said, “it would burn you to a cinder.”I’ve tried to burn you similarly,” it said, “but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.

As the last dish of confections was removed a weird pageant swept across the further end of the banqueting-room: Oberon and Titania with Robin Goodfellow and the rest, attired in silks and satins gorgeous of...