"Well, you see, Lootie, there are reasons," she returned, and said no
more, for she did not want to bring up the subject of their former
strife, lest her nurse should offer to go before she had had her
grandmother's permission to bring her. Of course she could refuse to
take her, but then she would believe her less than ever.
Now the nurse, as she said herself afterward, could not be every
moment
in the room, and as never before yesterday had the princess given her
the smallest reason for anxiety, it had not yet come into her head to
watch her more closely. So she soon gave her a chance, and the very
first that offered, Irene was off and up the stairs again.
This day's adventure, however, did not turn out like yesterday's,
although it began like it; and indeed to-day is very seldom like
yesterday, if people would note the differences--even when it rains.
The
princess ran through passage after passage, and could not find the stair
of the tower. My own suspicion is that she had not gone up high
enough,
and was searching on the second instead of the third floor. When she
turned to go back, she failed equally in her search after the stair. She
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