Each box proved to contain a beautiful wreath made of enameled pink leaves with silver berries—both exactly alike.
"Oh! Aren't they pretty!" exclaimed Frances. "Are we to wear them?"
"Yes, Miss, if you please," replied the little waiting-maid. "All the court ladies wear wreaths and slippers to match. These are your slippers," running to the cupboard and bringing back two pairs of white satin slippers with big pink rosettes on them. "The King hopes you'll like them."
"The King is very kind," replied Margaret. "Yes, these will do beautifully."
"Then, if Your Ladyships are ready, will you please to follow us?"
So saying, Anita threw open the door, when she and the other little maid, taking hands, went skipping off down a wide hallway, Margaret and Frances skipping after them and poor little Periwinkle with a serious countenance galloping behind, until they arrived at the top of a long flight of steps down which they went, six steps at a time, to find the Admiral and the Court Crier waiting for them.
"Quite ready, Ladies?" asked the Admiral. "Then we'll join the garden-party at once."
CHAPTER VII
COCO BOLO REX
"This way, please," said their guide, waving his hand toward a pair of big glass doors, on each of which was painted a monogram—C. B. R.—with a crown above it.