"Ah, yes, your royal highness," she said. "We are princesses I believe. At least one of us is."

Sara felt the blood rush up into her face. She only just saved herself. If you were a princess, you did not fly into rages.

"It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess so I can try to behave like one."

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

He hasn’t called.

And then I wrote him back.