She laughed. "You wouldn't be half so nice."
This was almost the beginning of an enchantment.
"If you will turn your head toward the wall I'll try on the slipper. I am curious to learn if there is a girl here who has a smaller foot than I."
"Vanity, vanity, all is vanity!"
"'Tisn't vanity; it's curiosity; and maybe my foot is getting cold."
I took some pillows and piled them on the floor. "How will this do?"
"Since I can not have the slipper I shall not move. Besides, I am sitting on the unshod foot. Hadn't you better sit down here beside me and give an account of yourself and what you have been doing all these ten years?"
"You know me?" genuinely astonished.
"But you do not know me?"