Twenty Years After Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the "idea" of benevolent royalty. His musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers. The action begins during the regency of Queen Anne of Austria (term 1643–1651), with Cardinal Mazarin as First Minister. D'Artagnan, who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him at the end of "The Three Musketeers", has for twenty years remained a lieutenant, and seems unlikely to progress despite his ambition and the debt
Twenty Years a Dream to learn that he had a similar dream. Locket confirms that the events of the dream were in fact real, and presents Wang with her father's dagger as a token of appreciation. Locket then informs Yang that for her to be resurrected, she requires "the seed and blood of a living man", to which he gladly obliges. She tells him to dig up her grave a hundred days later; Yang dutifully carries this out and finds her in the coffin, living and breathing. Locket exclaims, "Those twenty years were like a dream." "Twenty Years a Dream" is believed to be