Before the gates were three young girls, dressed in handsome red uniforms trimmed with gold braid; and as Dorothy approached, one of them said to her: "Why have you come to the South Country ?" "To see the Good Witch who rules here," she answered.

"Will you take me to her ?" "Let me have your name, and I will ask Glinda if she will receive you." They told who they were, and the girl soldier went into the Castle.
After a few moments she came back to say that Dorothy and the others were to be admitted at once..