She's a good girl, I am certain, and that's more than being a princess.

Depend upon it you will have to be sorry for behaving so to her, Curdie.

You ought at least to have held your tongue.' 'I am sorry now,' answered Curdie.
'You ought to go and tell her so, then.' 'I don't see how I could manage that.

They wouldn't let a miner boy like me have a word with her alone; and I couldn't tell her before that nurse of hers.

She'd be asking ever so many questions, and I don't know how many the little princess would like me to answer.