s Sunny, of course," they said, just as though there could be no
doubt about it whatever.

"She is the little Princess your daughter," said a fresh voice from the
doorway. And there stood the Queen, who had not been able to stay by
herself any longer and had just come after Sunny as fast as she could.
When the King saw her, he quite forgot that she used to laugh too much,
and he came down from his throne in a terrific hurry and he kissed her
several times before the whole court; and Sunny kissed them both there
and then; and all the ladies in waiting in the room kissed all the
pages that were to be seen; and the courtiers stood in rows along the
wall and never got kissed at all.

So that was how Sunny found out she was a Princess; and there were
bands and flags and balls and banquets and cheers and Princes and lots
of fun. For that evening the King gave a magnificent ball, to
celebrate the return of his daughter Sunny; and all the Princes in the
kingdom were invited to it.

"Now," said the Queen, as she carefully put on Sunny's beautiful new
crown, "you will be able to find your Prince, as you said you would."

But Sunny shook her head and wondered why she felt so sad when
everything seemed to be going so well; and when the Queen had gone
downstairs to look after the supper, she went to the open window and
looked out into the garden. As she did so, there came a faint buzzing
and humming close at hand, and three beautiful brown bees flew down and
settled on her round white arm. And Sunny gave a cry of joy and knew
all at once why she had been feeling so lonely; and she began to sing
the song Honey the gardener's son had taught her:--

"Friends of Honey
Come to Sunny;
Whizzing, whirring,
Stillness stirring,
Sunlight blurring;
Friends of Honey,
Fly to Sunny!"

She had not nearly finished singing it before there came a distant
murmur in the still, warm air, and the murmur grew louder and louder
until it would almost have deafened any one if there had been any one
there to deafen. But the people in the palace were so occupied in
dressing for the ball that a thunderstorm would not have made any
difference to them; and as for Sunny, the sound only reminded her of
the village without a name, where she had been so happy with Honey. So
she leaned out of the window as far as she could, and waited until she
saw a dense cloud coming gradually towards her, so large that it
covered the whole of t