If I were really a common boy I should say it was a lie.
Then we all came away, and when we got outside Dora said, 'So she was really a Princess.

Fancy a Princess living _there_!' 'Even Princesses have to live somewhere,' said Dicky.
'And I thought it was play.

And it was real.

I wish I'd known! I should have liked to ask her lots of things,' said Alice.
H.O.said he would have liked to ask her what she had for dinner and whether she had a crown.
I felt, myself, we had lost a chance of finding out a great deal about kings and queens.

I might have known such a stupid-looking little girl would never have been able to pretend, as well as that.
So we all went home across the Heath, and made dripping toast for tea.
When we were eating it Noel said, 'I wish I could give _her_ some! It is very good.' He sighed as he said it, and his mouth was very full, so we knew he was thinking of his Princess.