Toinette. Oh, I'm so glad, because I love fairies. The children do too, and they are always teasing me to tell them fairy tales.
Hollyberry. I am the leader of the band of elves. My name is Hollyberry, and I've come with a message to you. I told you the elves and fairies all like you. So we are going to give you a Christmas present.
Toinette. Oh, oh! how kind you are.
Hollyberry [arms folded, nodding his head]. Yes, we are. Very kind. But people don't always think so. Toinette, how would you like to be invisible?
Toinette. Invisible? Oh, do you mean to go around wherever I like without being seen? Oh, what fun!
Hollyberry. That's exactly what I mean. We can do it, at any time, because we know how. But mortals like you can only do it on Christmas Eve, and then only when we help them.
Toinette. Do you mean you are going to show me how?
Hollyberry. That's it. There are two things you must do. First you must put fern seed in your shoes.
Toinette. Fern seed? Why, I didn't even know ferns had seeds. I never saw any.