"I'm your father's mother's father's mother."
"Oh, dear! I can't understand that," said the princess.
"I daresay not. I didn't expect you would. But that's no reason why I
shouldn't say it."
"Oh no!" answered the princess.
"I will explain it all to you when you are older," the lady went on.
"But you will be able to understand this much now: I came here to take
care of you."
"Is it long since you came? Was it yesterday? Or was it to-day, because
it was so wet that I couldn't get out?"
"I've been here ever since you came yourself."
"What a long time!" said the princess. "I don't remember it at all."
"No. I suppose not."
Madhuri Noah
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