I am only too glad to stand so long as anyone will sit in it.' 'How kind of you!' said the princess, and sat down again.
'It makes me happy,' said the lady.
'But,' said Irene, still puzzled, 'won't the thread get in somebody's way and be broken, if the one end is fast to my ring, and the other laid in your cabinet ?' 'You will find all that arrange itself.

I am afraid it is time for you to go.' 'Mightn't I stay and sleep with you tonight, grandmother ?' 'No, not tonight.

If I had meant you to stay tonight, I should have given you a bath; but you know everybody in the house is miserable about you, and it would be cruel to keep them so all night.

You must go downstairs.' 'I'm so glad, grandmother, you didn't say "Go home," for this is my home.

Mayn't I call this my home ?' 'You may, my child.