'Oh yes, you can!' cried Mary; 'because you can do anything. You brought me here, and I like being here--very much, ever so much! I never want to go away again. You won't let me go away again!' cried Mary. 'You can't go until you can walk, you see,' said Evangeline. 'Shall I be able to walk soon?' 'Ah! that is more than I can tell you, dear.' 'Oh, I hope not! I hope not!' exclaimed Mary. 'But surely you want to be able to walk again?' said Evangeline. 'Not if I have to go away,' Mary answered. 'I hope I shall never be able to walk again, then you will let me stay always.' As soon as Evangeline left the room, Mary wanted to know when she should see her again, and Sister Agatha said not before to-morrow. 'Then I should like to go to bed now!' cried Mary. 'Why do you want to go so early?' asked Sister Agatha; 'you generally like to sit up as late as you can.' 'Because I want to-morrow to come soon,' said Mary, and she shut her eyes and tried to go to sleep as soon as her head touched the pillow in order to make to-morrow come sooner. 'You must remember that Evangeline has a great deal to do,' said Sister Agatha, as she dressed Mary the next morning. 'She has been away so long that now she has come home again a lot of people want to see her.' 'Who?' asked Mary. 'Oh, well, wherever there's a very beautiful fairy there is usually a prince not far off,' answered Sister Agatha. 'And some day he will come to take Evangeline away with him.' 'Not if she doesn't want to go,' cried Mary. 'I do hope she won't go. And of course she can do whatever she likes, can't she?' 'She can certainly do a great many things,' said Sister Agatha, when she had put Mary in the arm-chair and given her a cup of soup. 'And she can make other people do a great many things too.' 'How does she make people do things?' asked Mary. 'That depends what kind of people they are,' was the answer. 'There are some, like the prince, who would go to the end of the earth to please her if she only looked at them in a particular manner.' 'I wish he would go there if it's a long way off!' exclaimed Mary; 'because I don't want him to take her away. How does she make other people do things?' she asked. 'She gives them some of her magic counters, you know.' 'Magic counters!' cried Mary, opening her eyes more widely. 'Yes,' said Sister Agatha; 'I don't know whether you have ever seen a magic counter. But they're little round, flat things, very hard and bright yellow. And when she gives them to people they generally do whatever she tells them to do. Now, doesn't that seem very wonderful?' 'Very!' murmured Mary. 'But I shouldn't want her to give them to me. I should do what she told me when she looked at me, like the prince, you know. Is the prince pretty like Evangeline?' Mary asked. As she spoke the door opened, and Evangeline entered the room.