“What a long time!” said the princess. “I don’t remember it at all.”
“No. I suppose not.”
“But I never saw you before.”
“No. But you shall see me again.”
“Do you live in this room always?”
“I don’t sleep in it. I sleep on the opposite side of the landing. I sit here most of the day.”
“I shouldn’t like it. My nursery is much prettier. You must be a queen too, if you are my great big grandmother.”
“Yes, I am a queen.”
“Where is your crown, then?”
“In my bedroom.”
“I should like to see it.”
“You shall some day—not today.”
“I wonder why nursie never told me.”
“Nursie doesn’t know. She never saw me.”
“But somebody knows that you are in the house?”
“No; nobody.”
“How do you get your dinner, then?”
“I keep poultry—of a sort.”