Moss-Rose.
How is linen-thread sp-manufactured?
All.
[Hastily.] It isn’t!
Moss-Rose.
[Persisting.] Linen is woven of thread; that I know. And thread is made of flax, and flax grows in the garden; that I know! But how is flax made into thread? No one ever will answer me that! And it has been blotted out of the encyclopedia!
[There is a slight pause.]
The King.
Come, come, child; trust your parents to-day, and to-morrow I’ll sp... I’ll reel you a long yarn about it!