"Sand Crab, kneel before me!" Harry sprang forward to obey, and kneeled at Kitty's feet.
"Thus I anoint thee page!" declared the Queen, dramatically tapping him three times on his shoulder.

"Rise, Sir Page, and attend upon me!" "Yes, ma'am! What shall I do ?" asked the new page, greatly flustered.
"Stand thou here at my right hand.

It may be I might have an errand or two now and then." "Aye, aye, O Queen!" declaimed Dick, who was catching the spirit of Kitty's rule.
"Well spoke, fair sir.

Stand thou there, I prithee.

And now, Courtiers, is there any business to be discussed ?" "Nay, O Queen," said Tom, "we but wait thy pleasure." "Then my pleasure is now to install the new Queen.