"But when she starts making a fuss and gets so red and excited, she--she--rather frightens me." "It would take a lot more than that to frighten me," said Erebus with a very cold ferocity.
"I rather like people like that.

I think they look so funny when they're really red and excited," said the Terror gently.

"But what you've got to do is to stand up to her." "Stand up to her ?" said the princess, puzzled by the idiom.
"Tell her that you don't care what she says," said the Terror.
"Cheek her," said Erebus.
"I couldn't.

It would be too difficult," said the princess, shaking her head.
"Of course it isn't easy at first; but you'll be surprised to find how soon you'll get used to shutting her up," said the Terror.

"But I don't believe in cheeking her unless she gets very noisy.