"You had better not tell them anything at all about us.

They wouldn't let us come to the Grange; and they'd stop you coming here.

It's ever so much nicer meeting secretly like this." "But it would be very nice to meet at the Grange as well as here," said the princess, who felt strongly that she could not have enough of this good thing.
"It couldn't be done.

They wouldn't have us at the Grange," said Erebus, supporting the Terror.
"But why not ?" said the princess in surprise.
"The people about here don't understand us," said the Terror somewhat sadly.

"They'd think we should be bad for you." "But it is not so! You are ever so good to me!" cried the princess hotly.
"It's no good.