"I will some day, but now you must go back, or nursie will be miserable
about you. I daresay she's looking for you everywhere."
"Except here," answered the princess. "Oh how surprised she _will_ be
when I tell her about my great big grand-grandmother!"
"Yes, that she will!" said the old lady with a curious smile. "Mind you
tell her all about it exactly."
"That I will. Please will you take me back to her?"
"I can't go all the way, but I will take you to the top of the stair,
and then you must run down quite fast into your own room."
The little princess put her hand in the old lady's, who, looking this
way and that, brought her to the top of the first stair, and thence to
the bottom of the second, and did not leave her till she saw her half
way down the third. When she heard the cry of her nurse's pleasure at
finding her, she turned and walked up the stairs again, very fast indeed
for such a very great grandmother, and sat down to her spinning with
another strange smile on her sweet old face.
Madhuri Noah
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