"Oh goodness! What has happened? Really it was not my fault!" "Never mind, I'll run it up, it won't show," said Dunyasha.

"What a beauty--a very queen!" said the nurse as she came to the door.

" And Sonya! They are lovely!" At a quarter past ten they at last got into their carriages and started.

But they had still to call at the Taurida Gardens.