POPPY
So Ivy joined the dance, and right merrily they went round and round, till they all had to sit down to take breath.
WILLOW
Highest of all, on a tuft of soft earth, sat Rusialka. All the little white fairies sat in a circle round her. And Ivy and Christmas Rose took one another by the hand and curtsied to Rusialka.
“White Lady,” said the Ivy, “if you like we will go and wake up our little sisters, and when we are all here we will dance to your company a dance that the breezes taught us last spring.”
“Go then,” said Rusialka, “and bring your sisters to me.”
So Christmas Rose and Ivy went away, and returned presently with another little sister-flower, the Yellow Jasmine.
