A little time after the grub was full grown, and stepped out of her cell as big and as beautiful as the bees could wish. And besides, she knew how to command.
"Away with you!" she said. "We must have more honey for our use in the winter, and you others must perspire more wax. I am thinking of building a new wing to the hive. The new princesses shall live there next year; it is very unsuitable for them to be so near common grubs."
"Heyday!" said the bees to one another. "One would think she had been a queen ever since she lay in the egg."
"No," said the head bee-nurse; "that is not so. But she has had queenly thoughts, and that is the great thing."
