This Room was Occupied by Her Majesty the Queen of Boravia on the Occasion of Her Visit to the Manor House, Southam Parva,
27th of June, 1902.
“It’s a very pretty idea, indeed! I congratulate you on it, Mrs Thistleton,” said I.
“I do like it; and ‘the Queen’s Room’ sounds such a nice name for it.”
“Charming!” I declared.
“Why didn’t you put one in the little room upstairs too—the room she slept in all the last part of the time, mamma?” asked Molly.
Well, well, children will make these mistakes. I think it was very creditable to Mrs Thistleton that she merely told Molly to think before she spoke, in which case (Mrs Thistleton intimated) she would not ask such a large number of foolish questions.
So Mrs Thistleton has a very pleasant memento of her Princess. I have one of her too—a big book, with a picture of the great castle and the broad river flowing below. And in the beginning of the book is written: “To him who did not forget—Vera.”
The description still applies.