"Lately, however, the daydream had been concentrating on the princess to whom Abdullah had been betrothed at his birth" (Chapter 1, p. 6).

"He woke to find himself lying on a bank, with the carpet still underneath him, in a garden more beautiful than any he had imagined" (Chapter 2, p. 20).

"'It has to be a made-up word or a foreign one!' he cried out feverishly. It was that or believe that Flower-in-theNight was only a dream after all" (Chapter 3, p. 40).

"The carpet whipped up in to the air and then away sideways with such speed and suddenness that Abdullah was first thrown over on his back, with all the breath knocked out of him, and then found himself hanging half over its frayed edge in what seemed a terrifying height in the air" (Chapter 3, p. 49).

"Abdullah ceased to blush. He saw he had been summoned here to be criticized...