Her legs were very thin.

She was sitting in a hammock chair nursing a blue kitten--not a sky-blue one, of course, but the colour of a new slate pencil.

As we came up we heard her say to Noel--'Who are you ?' Noel had forgotten about the bear, and he was taking his favourite part, so he said--'I'm Prince Camaralzaman.' The funny little girl looked pleased-- 'I thought at first you were a common boy,' she said.

Then she saw the rest of us and said-- 'Are you all Princesses and Princes too ?' Of course we said 'Yes,' and she said-- 'I am a Princess also.' She said it very well too, exactly as if it were true.

We were very glad, because it is so seldom you meet any children who can begin to play right off without having everything explained to them.