The Prince rang the bell and after waiting quite a long time, a little girl came to the door. Before she opened her mouth to speak Dorothy thought to herself, “O dear, what a cross little girl, she looks just as if she were going to snap at you.”
“How do you do?” said the Prince politely. “Are your sisters at home?”
“Don’t know, find out for yourself.”
Whew! how she snapped it out and then disappeared.
“Didn’t you see it in her face before she spoke?” said the Prince turning to Dorothy.
“Yes, every word of it,” replied Dorothy, and then she thought, “I don’t want to look like that, so I must never be cross and snappy.”
They stepped inside, and the very first thing they saw was a little girl standing near a table with her head down.
She looked up a moment, and Dorothy thought how pretty she would have been, if she didn’t look so sulky.
“Good morning, Miss Sulk,” said the Prince, but she shrugged her shoulders, hung her head lower, and never answered.
“Do come away,” cried Dorothy, and in her mind she said, “I never want to be like that, so I must never, never sulk.”