328
SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED.
the back of her hand, and in doing this she dropped it into the dish: and, when she took it out again, it was full of spinach. "How curious!" she said, and put it into her mouth. "It tastes just like real spinach! I thought it was an imitation but I do believe it's real!" And she took another spoonful.
"It wo'n't be real much longer," said Bruno.
But the Empress had had enough spinach by this time, and somehow——I failed to notice the exact process——we all found ourselves in the Pavilion, and the Professor in the act of beginning the long-expected Lecture.
