"
"It's no use talking," she said again and again, and the voice came
from an empty-looking space between two pillars; "I never
believed anything would happen, and now it has."
"Well," said Gerald kindly, "can we do anything for you? Because,
if not, I think we ought to be going."
"Yes," said Jimmy; "I do want my tea!"
"Tea!" said the unseen Mabel scornfully. "Do you mean to say
you'd go off to your teas and leave me after getting me into this
mess?"
"Well, of all the unfair Princesses I ever met!" Gerald began. But
Kathleen interrupted
"Oh, don't rag her," she said. "Think how horrid it must be to be
invisible!"
"I don't think," said the hidden Mabel, "that my aunt likes me very
much as it is. She wouldn't let me go to the fair because I'd
forgotten to put back some old trumpery shoe that Queen Elizabeth
wore I got it out from the glass case to try it on."
"Did it fit?" asked Kathleen, with interest
"Not it much too small," said Mabel. "I don't believe it ever fitted
anyone."
"I do want my tea!" said Jimmy
"I do really think perhaps we ought to go," said Gerald. "You see,
it isn't as if we could do anything for you."
"You'll have to tell your aunt," said Kathleen kindly
"No, no, no!" moaned Mabel invisibly; "take me with you. I'll
leave her a note to say I've run away to sea."
"Girls don't run away to sea.
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