After all, I hadn't seen everything! Never before or since have I seen a lovelier dress than that.

It was what always had been wrapped in the sheet on the foot of the bed and I hadn't got a peep at it.

The pale green silk with tiny pink moss roses in it, that I had been thinking was the wedding dress, looked about right to wash the dishes in, compared with this.
This was a wedding dress.

You didn't need any one to tell you.

The Princess had as much red as I ever had seen in her cheeks, her eyes were bright, and she was half-laughing and half-crying.
"Oh you lucky, lucky girl!" she was saying.