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The Treasure Closet

alt=Nichette sat down on the floor with Mignon in her arms

Nichette sat down on the floor with Mignon in her arms, and began to play with the lonesomest doll and to talk with her as she would talk to her own ugly darlings. She told her about the garden and the rosebush and the four wooden dolls. She explained about the fountain and the green grass and the sunshine which Mignon had never seen.

“That is because you are a Queen’s dollie,

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