"I may be wrong," said the Court Godmother, "perhaps it isn't for you after all. But I'm sure it would make him very uncomfortable if you asked him, before everybody, what he happens to have in that sack of his."
"If I was sure of that," said Ruby, "I'd ask him like a shot!"
"You may depend on it. And more than that, Lady Daphne is particularly anxious to know."
"Oh, if Miss Heritage wants me to, all right!" said Ruby. "I say, Count Rubenfresser," she called across the table, "I want to ask you something."
"If it's a riddle, little Princess," replied the Count, with his mouth full, "I give it up beforehand."
"It isn't a riddle. It's this: What have you got inside that sack?"
"Sack?" said the Count blankly. "I don't understand. I have no sack here."
"I don't mean here. I mean the sack that's inside your coach."
"Ruby, my dear," interposed her mother, "you mustn't be so inquisitive. It's very rude."
"I know he has got a sack there, Mummy," insisted Ruby, "and I do want to know what he's got in it."