Lina It was Lina.

All at once Curdie recognized her--the frightful creature he had seen at the princess's.

He dropped his pickaxes and held out his hand.

She crept nearer and nearer, and laid her chin in his palm, and he patted her ugly head.

Then she crept away behind the tree, and lay down, panting hard.
Curdie did not much like the idea of her being behind him.