“I am awake again, and there is my home.”
“—taking off the plumed hat which he wore, he made her a very low bow.” [Page 33.]
Then there came a hurried exclamation of surprise, and Eva looked down from the moon’s crescent to see that the little figure which she had taken from the crest of the fountain had suddenly, as it were, been gifted by her kiss, with life, motion, and speech, and that he was now standing in her lap, evidently as much astonished at seeing her as she was at the change which had come over him.
But their mutual surprise did not last; for the little mannikin began to laugh as Eva’s blue eyes grew larger and rounder, and when at last she asked, “Who are you?” he put his head to one side, in the most comical manner, and, taking off the plumed cap which he wore, he made her a very low bow.
“I know now who you are,” he said. “You are Eva, and you will have to take care of me,—that is all you were sent here for.”
Eva laughed. “Suppose I should not want to take care of such a little thing as you are?”
“You will not have any choice in the matter,—you cannot help yourself.”
“Why?”