For still there
was no Princess to be seen.
"Come back visible, Princess dear," said Kathleen. "Shall we shut
our eyes and count again?"
"Don't be silly!" said the voice of the Princess, and it sounded very
cross.
"We're not silly," said Jimmy, and his voice was cross too. "Why
can't you come back and have done with it? You know you're only
hiding."
"Don't!" said Kathleen gently. "She is invisible, you know."
"So should I be if I got into the cupboard," said Jimmy.
"Oh yes," said the sneering tone of the Princess, "you think
yourselves very clever, I dare say. But I don't mind. We'll play that
you can't see me, if you like."
"Well, but we can't," said Gerald. "It's no use getting in a wax. If
you're hiding, as Jimmy says, you'd better come out. If you've
really turned invisible, you'd better make yourself visible again."
"Do you really mean," asked a voice quite changed, but still the
Princess's, "that you can't see me?"
"Can't you see we can't?" asked Jimmy rather unreasonably.
The sun was blazing in at the window; the eight-sided room was
very hot, and everyone was getting cross.
"You can't see me?" There was the sound of a sob in the voice of
the invisible Princess.
"No, I tell you," said Jimmy, "and I want my tea and "
What he was saying was broken off short, as one might break a
stick of sealing wax.
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