'Why, then!' exclaimed Hassan before the Magician had time to finish speaking, 'of course I'll have that!'
'What?' asked the Magician.
'I saw myself at home again, you know——'
'You were contented,' answered the Magician, 'you mustn't forget that.'
'No,' said Hassan, 'I won't.' And then, to his great surprise, he found himself at home again. He was sitting in the palace garden, rubbing his eyes just as if he had fallen asleep after dinner. But although everything else looked very much the same as it had done before he went away with the Magician, Hassan knew of one thing that was different, and that was himself. For, you see, he had become the contented boy he fancied he saw in the forest—Hassan had become just what he wished to be.
V
MARY SEES THE WINGS, AS WELL AS SOME OTHER WONDERFUL THINGS
'Well,' said Sister Agatha, as she put on one of Mary's new dresses a few mornings later (it was the plum-coloured dress), 'what do you think of your fairy-godmother by this time?'
'I think she's lovely,' answered Mary; 'only I do want to see her wings!'