IF it's only in a dream, it's well worth while.

And I don't go back to that nasty underground kitchen, and me blamed for everything; that I don't, not till the dream's finished and I wake up with that nasty bell a rang-tanging in my ears--so I tell you.' 'Are you SURE,' Anthea anxiously asked the Phoenix, 'that she will be quite safe here ?' 'She will find the nest of a queen a very precious and soft thing,' said the bird, solemnly.
'There--you hear,' said Cyril.

'You're in for a precious soft thing, so mind you're a good queen, cook.

It's more than you'd any right to expect, but long may you reign.' Some of the cook's copper-coloured subjects now advanced from the forest with long garlands of beautiful flowers, white and sweet-scented, and hung them respectfully round the neck of their new sovereign.
'What! all them lovely bokays for me!' exclaimed the enraptured cook.
'Well, this here is something LIKE a dream, I must say.' She sat up very straight on the carpet, and the copper-coloured ones, themselves wreathed in garlands of the gayest flowers, madly stuck parrot feathers in their hair and began to dance.

It was a dance such as you have never seen; it made the children feel almost sure that the cook was right, and that they were all in a dream.