"I am in ze charge of 'er royal highness; and I zay zat she does not wiz zese children blay." The fine gray eyes of the princess were burning with a somber glow.
She was angry, and her mind was teeming with the instructions of her young mentors, especially with the more violent instructions of Erebus.
She gazed straight into the sparkling but blood-shot eyes of the raging baroness, and said in a somewhat uncertain voice but clearly enough: "Old--red--peeg." Miss Lambart started in her chair; the baroness uttered a gasping grunt; she blinked; she could not believe her ears.
"But whad--but whad--" she said faintly.
"Old--red--peeg," said the princess, somewhat pleased with the effect of the words, and desirous of deepening it.
"Bud whad ees eed zat 'appen ?" muttered the bewildered baroness.
"If you do not find me children quickly, I shall write to my father that you do not as the English doctor bids; and you were ordered to do everything what the English doctor bids," said the princess in a sinister tone.

"Then you will go back to Cassel-Nassau and the Baroness Hochfelden will be my _gouvernante_." The baroness ground her teeth, but she trembled; it might easily happen, if the letter of the princess found the grand duke of Cassel-Nassau in the wrong mood, that she would lose this comfortable well-paid post, and the hated Baroness Hochfelden take it.
"Bud zere are no 'igh an' well-born children, your Royal Highness," she said in a far gentler, apologetic voice.
The princess frowned at her and said: "Mees Lambart will find them.

Is it not, Mees Lambart ?" "I shall be charmed to try, Highness," said Miss Lambart readily.
"Do nod indervere! I veel zose childen vind myzelf!" snapped the baroness.
The princess rose, still quivering a little from the conflict, but glowing with the joy of victory.

At the door she paused to say: "And I want them soon--at once." Then, though the baroness had many times forbidden her to tempt the night air, she went firmly out into the garden.

The next morning at breakfast she again demanded children to play with.
Accordingly when Doctor Arbuthnot paid his visit that morning, the baroness asked him what children in the neighborhood could be invited to come to play with the princess.