![]() ![]() Some time later, Maud returns to Bella's village with a summons from her father, who has recently remarried. The captivity is to enforce a peace treaty between the two kingdoms. Later, he is on his way to apologize to her when a messenger stops him to inform him that he is to be a hostage in a neighboring kingdom, Brutanna, with which they had been at war. But instead of acknowledging her as a friend, he pretends not to know her. One day, when Julian is older, he is approached by Bella in front of his peers. The prince frequently returns to visit over the course of his childhood, and he and Isabel, or "Bella", become fast friends. ![]() His wife, Beatrice, recently served as a wet nurse to the fourth son of the king, Prince Julian. ![]() Maud christens the child Isabel, after her late grandmother, and gives her to the family of a blacksmith named Martin. Edward flies into a fury and orders Maud to get rid of the child. ![]() The child is delivered safely, but Catherine falls ill and dies. Three years later, Maud receives an urgent summons from her brother-in-law to aid her sister in childbirth. Maud's sister Catherine has just married Sir Edward of Burning Wood when he forbids her to see her family again. The story is based on the fairy tale Cinderella. Bella at Midnight is a fantasy novel for children by Diane Stanley. ![]()
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