'I always wanted to be a fairy,' she said.
'Did you have any one to dress you ?' he asked.
'Oh no!' said Lucy calmly.

'I always dress myself.' 'Ladies have the advantage there,' said Double-six, bowing and walking backwards.

'The banquet is spread.' It turned out to be spread on three tables, one along each side of a great room, and one across the top of the room, on a dais--such a table as that high one at which dons and distinguished strangers sit in the Halls of colleges.
Mr.Noah was already in his place in the middle of the high table, and Lucy and Philip now took their places at each side of him.

The table was spread with all sorts of nice-looking foods and plates of a pink-and-white pattern very familiar to Philip.

They were, in fact, as he soon realised, the painted wooden plates from his sister's old dolls' house.