Princesses—which was silly, to a grown-up person that is not a great friend of yours.
The gruff lady gave a short, horrid laugh, like a husky bark, and said—
"Princes, indeed! They're only common children!"
Dora turned very red and began to speak, but the little girl cried out "Common children! Oh, I am so glad! When I am grown up I'll always play with common children."
And she ran at us, and began to kiss us one by one, beginning with Alice; she had got to H. O. when the horrid lady said—
"Your Highness—go indoors at once!"
The little girl answered, "I won't!" Then the prim lady said—
"Wilson, carry her Highness indoors."
And the little girl was carried away screaming, and kicking with her little thin legs and her buttoned boots, and between her screams she shrieked: "Common children! I am glad, glad, glad! Common children! Common children!"
The nasty lady then remarked—
"Go at once, or I will send for the police!"
So we went. H. O. made a face at her and
