“Oh, dear no!” said the little Marionette, quite shocked. “Most of my friends and acquaintances are really wonderfully well-behaved.”
“Do you know, I should like you next time to tell me about one of them.”
“About some one simple, perhaps?”
“Yes, I think so.”
The little Marionette thought a moment.
Then she said: “I know of no one more simple than Belinda.”
“Tell me about her, if you please.”
“Very good. You shall hear of Belinda and her simplicity.”
So the next day she told her friend the story of