"They are very nice, and I made them myself.

We are very fond of them; and once, when the bishop stayed at our house, he liked them too." Before he sat down he drank off the whole of the cordial in the glass.
She took a chair near him, and breaking a seed-cake began eating it.

His tongue was loosened now, and he told her what he was smiling at when she came into the room.

She was amused, and there was a little awe to her interest also.

To think--she was sitting here, talking easily to a man who had eaten at kings' tables--with the king! Yet she was at ease too--since she had drunk the cordial.