"Why, how ever did you come here, Irene?"
"My great-great-grandmother sent me; and I think I've found out why.
You
can't get out, I suppose?"
"No, I can't. What are you doing?"
"Clearing away a huge heap of stones."
"There's a princess!" exclaimed Curdie, in a tone of delight, but still
speaking in little more than a whisper. "I can't think how you got here,
though."
"My grandmother sent me after her thread."
"I don't know what you mean," said Curdie; "but so you're there, it
doesn't much matter."
"Oh, yes it does!" returned Irene. "I should never have been here but
for her."
Madhuri Noah
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