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"
I
would
n't
ask
it
of
you
,
"
she
assured
them
,
"
if
I
thought
it
was
wrong
,
"
and
of
course
after
this
they
could
not
well
carry
tales
.
They
then
said
,
"
Well-a-day
,
"
and
"
Such
is
life
!
"
for
they
can
be
frightfully
sarcastic
,
but
she
felt
sorry
for
those
of
them
who
had
no
crutches
,
and
she
said
good-naturedly
,
"
Before
I
go
to
the
fairies
'
ball
,
I
should
like
to
take
you
for
a
walk
one
at
a
time
;
you
can
lean
on
me
,
you
know
.
"
At
this
they
clapped
their
hands
,
and
she
escorted
them
up
to
the
Baby
Walk
and
back
again
,
one
at
a
time
,
putting
an
arm
or
a
finger
round
the
very
frail
,
setting
their
leg
right
when
it
got
too
ridiculous
,
and
treating
the
foreign
ones
quite
as
courteously
as
the
English
,
though
she
could
not
understand
a
word
they
said
.
They
behaved
well
on
the
whole
,
though
some
whimpered
that
she
had
not
taken
them
as
far
as
she
took
Nancy
or
Grace
or
Dorothy
,
and
others
jagged
her
,
but
it
was
quite
unintentional
,
and
she
was
too
much
of
a
lady
to
cry
out
.
So
much
walking
tired
her
and
she
was
anxious
to
be
off
to
the
ball
,
but
she
no
longer
felt
afraid
.
The
reason
she
felt
no
more
fear
was
that
it
was
now
night-time
,
and
in
the
dark
,
you
remember
,
Maimie
was
always
rather
strange
.
They
were
now
loath
to
let
her
go
,
for
,
"
If
the
fairies
see
you
,
"
they
warned
her
,
"
they
will
mischief
you
,
stab
you
to
death
or
compel
you
to
nurse
their
children
or
turn
you
into
something
tedious
,
like
an
evergreen
oak
.
"
As
they
said
this
they
looked
with
affected
pity
at
an
evergreen
oak
,
for
in
winter
they
are
very
envious
of
the
evergreens
.
"
Oh
,
la
!
"
replied
the
oak
bitingly
,
"
how
deliciously
cosy
it
is
to
stand
here
buttoned
to
the
neck
and
watch
you
poor
naked
creatures
shivering
!
"
This
made
them
sulky
though
they
had
really
brought
it
on
themselves
,
and
they
drew
for
Maimie
a
very
gloomy
picture
of
the
perils
that
faced
her
if
she
insisted
on
going
to
the
ball
.
She
learned
from
a
purple
filbert
that
the
court
was
not
in
its
usual
good
temper
at
present
,
the
cause
being
the
tantalising
heart
of
the
Duke
of
Christmas
Daisies
.
He
was
an
Oriental
fairy
,
very
poorly
of
a
dreadful
complaint
,
namely
,
inability
to
love
,
and
though
he
had
tried
many
ladies
in
many
lands
he
could
not
fall
in
love
with
one
of
them
.
Queen
Mab
,
who
rules
in
the
Gardens
,
had
been
confident
that
her
girls
would
bewitch
him
,
but
alas
,
his
heart
,
the
doctor
said
,
remained
cold
.
This
rather
irritating
doctor
,
who
was
his
private
physician
,
felt
the
Duke
's
heart
immediately
after
any
lady
was
presented
,
and
then
always
shook
his
bald
head
and
murmured
,
"
Cold
,
quite
cold
!
"
Naturally
Queen
Mab
felt
disgraced
,
and
first
she
tried
the
effect
of
ordering
the
court
into
tears
for
nine
minutes
,
and
then
she
blamed
the
Cupids
and
decreed
that
they
should
wear
fools
'
caps
until
they
thawed
the
Duke
's
frozen
heart
.
"
How
I
should
love
to
see
the
Cupids
in
their
dear
little
fools
'
caps
!
"
Maimie
cried
,
and
away
she
ran
to
look
for
them
very
recklessly
,
for
the
Cupids
hate
to
be
laughed
at
.
It
is
always
easy
to
discover
where
a
fairies
'
ball
is
being
held
,
as
ribbons
are
stretched
between
it
and
all
the
populous
parts
of
the
Gardens
,
on
which
those
invited
may
walk
to
the
dance
without
wetting
their
pumps
.
This
night
the
ribbons
were
red
and
looked
very
pretty
on
the
snow
.
Maimie
walked
alongside
one
of
them
for
some
distance
without
meeting
anybody
,
but
at
last
she
saw
a
fairy
cavalcade
approaching
.
To
her
surprise
they
seemed
to
be
returning
from
the
ball
,
and
she
had
just
time
to
hide
from
them
by
bending
her
knees
and
holding
out
her
arms
and
pretending
to
be
a
garden
chair
.
There
were
six
horsemen
in
front
and
six
behind
,
in
the
middle
walked
a
prim
lady
wearing
a
long
train
held
up
by
two
pages
,
and
on
the
train
,
as
if
it
were
a
couch
,
reclined
a
lovely
girl
,
for
in
this
way
do
aristocratic
fairies
travel
about
.
She
was
dressed
in
golden
rain
,
but
the
most
enviable
part
of
her
was
her
neck
,
which
was
blue
in
colour
and
of
a
velvet
texture
,
and
of
course
showed
off
her
diamond
necklace
as
no
white
throat
could
have
glorified
it
.
The
high-born
fairies
obtain
this
admired
effect
by
pricking
their
skin
,
which
lets
the
blue
blood
come
through
and
dye
them
,
and
you
can
not
imagine
anything
so
dazzling
unless
you
have
seen
the
ladies
'
busts
in
the
jewellers
'
windows
.
