Took her back to court in her own chariot.
"It was without fear or misgiving this time that the fairy sent off her butterfly messenger the next morning; and her joy was complete when the queen not only took her back to court in her own chariot, but as a proof of her perfect restoration to favour, transported the pretty white house by a wave of her wand to the centre of a lovely garden near her own palace, and gave it to the fairy as her home."
Miss Lilly stopped reading. The children looked up, pleased but a little puzzled.
"What a funny story," said Ferdy; "it's nice, but isn't it more what you call a—I forget the word."
"Allegory, do you mean?" said Miss Lilly. "Well yes, perhaps. Many fairy stories have a kind of meaning behind them, but I don't think this one is difficult to guess."
"It means, I suppose," said Chrissie, "that everything is of use, if you can find the right place for it."
"A little more than that," said Miss Lilly. "We might put it this way—that everybody, even the smallest and weakest, has his or her own place in the house of—" and she hesitated.
"In the house of the world?" said Ferdy.
"In the house of life," said Miss Lilly after thinking a little. "That says it better."