He might have broken some of his bones, if Laddie hadn't seen and caught him.
"If you are SURE the flowers go inside, fix one before she comes!" cried mother.
Father stepped too close the edge of the chair, and by that time he didn't know how to hang anything, so Laddie climbed up and had one nailed before the Princess stopped.

She came to bring Sally the handkerchief, and it was the loveliest one any of us ever had seen.
There was a little patch in the middle about four inches square, and around it a wide ruffle of dainty lace.

It was made to carry in a hand covered with white lace mitts, when you were wearing a wedding gown of silver silk, lined with white.

Of course it wouldn't have been the slightest use for a funeral or with a cold in your head.

And it had come from across the sea! From the minute she took it by a pinch in the middle, Sally carried her head so much higher than she ever had before, that you could notice the difference.
Laddie went straight on nailing up the blinds, and every one he fixed he let down full length so the Princess could see the roses were inside; he was so sure he was right.