“I’ll look. I don’t want to disturb her ’cause she’s so busy. But she doesn’t mind when I look through her things if I leave them just as I find them,” she told him. “What does the stiletto look like?”
“It’s made either of bone or of ivory or of steel and is about four inches long. It’s very sharp at one end to pierce the material and the other end is usually fancy,” he explained.
Margaret thought she could find it and went out of the room to search for one among her Mother’s things. While she was gone Sir Bodkin and the One-Eyed Fairies tried to bend and twist and turn as they had just seen their little mistress doing a short time before. They looked very funny as they tried to do these exercises. They were so stiff.
“Is this it?” Margaret asked running back into the room and holding up a white bone stiletto.
Sir Bodkin turned around quickly to look. Margaret was laughing to see how funny they all looked doing stunts.
“Yes,” answered he, “that is what we are looking for. Where do you want the eyelets placed, My Lady?”
Margaret took up the new white middy blouse to show the King the slit down the front.
“This makes it easier to put my head through and has to be laced with a lacing after I slip it on,” she said.