"Won't you be seated ?" The Princess stepped to the chair, but she gripped the back in both hands and stood straight, breathing fast, her eyes shining with excitement, her lips and cheeks red, so lovely you just had to look, and look.
"No," she said.

"I'll tell you why I came, and then if there is nothing I can do here, and no errand I can ride for you, I'll go.
Mother has heart trouble, the worst in all the world, the kind no doctor can ever hope to cure, and sometimes, mostly at night, she is driven to have outside air.

Last night she was unusually ill, and I heard her leave the house, after I'd gone to my room.

I watched from my window and saw her take a seat on a bench under the nearest tree.

I was moving around and often I looked to see if she were still there.
Then the dogs began to rave, and I hurried down.