His Majesty was good enough to say that he should be delighted to accept, and so I wrote off at once to say that she might expect us.
CHAPTER IV
LOST
We had a terrible fright the next morning, for the poor dear Wallypug got lost, and for some time we could not imagine what had become of him.
It happened in this way: directly after breakfast his Majesty said that he should like to go for a walk and look at the shops.
“I’m not going,” declared the Doctor-in-Law. “I have some very important letters to write.”
We all looked up in surprise, for we did not know that the Doctor-in-Law had any other acquaintances in London.
“Letters from which I hope to derive a princely income,” continued the little man grandly; “and, therefore, I have no time for such foolishness as looking into shop windows.”