"Not a bit lonely, but you're so nice-looking," she explained, "and so alive. And Notya is only coming alive slowly. It's like watching something being born. You're whole."
"And you're rather embarrassing."
"I want you to talk to me all the time you're here. Tell me things that have nothing to do with us. Rupert, I'm sick of us." She dropped on to a chair and whispered, "It's an enchanted house!"
"Are you the princess?"
"Yes. Be careful! I don't want Jane to know."
He glanced up the stairs. "The prince is coming soon."
She ignored that and went on: "Nurse is an ogress."
"By Jove, yes! Why couldn't they send some one who looks like a Christian?"
"I believe she'll eat me. But I shouldn't see that, and I can't bear to see her eating anything else. D'you know?"
"Rather. That kind of thing oughtn't to be allowed."