Dressing up, and walking about the garden would be no fun for me.

I really had looked forward to clearing away big baskets full of weeds and rubbish, and keeping our five gardens and the paths between them so tidy as they had never been kept before.

And I knew the weeds would have a fine time of it with Adela, as Weeding Woman, in a tissue-paper bonnet! But one thing was more important, than tidy gardens--not to be selfish.
I had been left as Little Mother to the others, and I had been lucky enough to think of a game that pleased them.

If I turned selfish now, it would spoil everything.
So I said that Arthur's idea was excellent; that I had no wish to be Queen, that I thought I might, perhaps, devise another character for myself by and by; and that if the others would leave me alone, I would think about it whilst I was making Adela's bonnet.
The others were quite satisfied.

Father says people always are satisfied with things in general, when they've got what they want for themselves, and I think that is true.
I got the tissue-paper and the gum; resisted Adela's extreme desire to be with me and talk about the bonnet, and shut myself up in the library.
I got out the Book of Paradise too, and propped it up in an arm-chair, and sat on a footstool in front of it, so that I could read in between whiles of making the bonnet.