of course he could only get the first two names right, because he'd made it up as he went on.
So the Princess said, "You are quite old enough to know your own name." She was very grave and serious.
She told us that she was the fifth cousin of Queen Victoria. We asked who the other cousins were, but she did not seem to understand. She went on and said she was seven times removed. She couldn't tell us what that meant either, but Oswald thinks it means that the Queen's cousins are so fond of her that they will keep coming bothering, so the Queen's servants have orders to remove them. This little girl must have been very fond of the Queen to try so often to see her, and to have been seven times removed. We could see that it is considered something to be proud of; but we thought it was hard on the Queen that her cousins wouldn't let her alone.
Presently the little girl asked us where our maids and governesses were.
We told her we hadn't any just now. And she said—
"How pleasant! And did you come here alone?"
