Count Zerbst said sulkily that it was not the children who would baffle him, but the caves and the woods they were using.

At last they began to discuss the measure of summoning to their aid the local police; and for some time debated whether it was worth the risk of the ridicule it might bring upon them.
Miss Lambart had listened to them with distrait ears since she had something more pleasant to give her mind to.

But at last she said with some impatience: "Why can't the princess stay where she is?
That open-air life, day and night, is doing her a world of good.

She is eating lots of good food and taking ten times as much exercise as ever she took in her life before." "Eembossible! Shall I live in a cave ?" cried the baroness.
"It doesn't matter at all where you live.

It is the princess we are considering," said Miss Lambart unkindly, for she had come quite to the end of her patience with the baroness.
"Drue!" said the archduke quickly.
"Shall eet zen be zat ze princess live ze life of a beast in a gave ?" cried the baroness.
"She isn't," said Miss Lambart shortly.