woman there at least who could pass for her precious grandmother!"
"Didn't she speak as if she saw those other things herself, Curdie?"
"Yes. That's what bothers me. You would have thought she really
meant
and believed that she saw every one of the things she talked about. And
not one of them there! It was too bad, I say."
"Perhaps some people can see things other people can't see, Curdie,"
said his mother very gravely. "I think I will tell you something I saw
myself once--only perhaps you won't believe me either!"
"Oh, mother, mother!" cried Curdie, bursting into tears; "I don't
deserve that, surely!"
"But what I am going to tell you is very strange," persisted his mother;
"and if having heard it, you were to say I must have been dreaming, I
don't know that I should have any right to be vexed with you, though I
know at least that I was not asleep."
"Do tell me, mother. Perhaps it will help me to think better of the
princess."
Madhuri Noah
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