`` Wait one moment , '' said a china merchant , `` and I shall make you a saucer . '' Now alas , it was absolutely finished . Oh , dear no ! `` Gracious me , '' cried a brass manufacturer , `` there 's no handle on the door , '' and he put one on . An ironmonger added a scraper and an old lady ran up with a door-mat . Carpenters arrived with a water-butt , and the painters insisted on painting it . Finished at last ! `` Finished ! how can it be finished , '' the plumber demanded scornfully , `` before hot and cold are put in ? '' and he put in hot and cold . Then an army of gardeners arrived with fairy carts and spades and seeds and bulbs and forcing-houses , and soon they had a flower garden to the right of the verandah and a vegetable garden to the left , and roses and clematis on the walls of the house , and in less time than five minutes all these dear things were in full bloom . Oh , how beautiful the little house was now ! But it was at last finished true as true , and they had to leave it and return to the dance . They all kissed their hands to it as they went away , and the last to go was Brownie . She stayed a moment behind the others to drop a pleasant dream down the chimney . All through the night the exquisite little house stood there in the Figs taking care of Maimie , and she never knew . She slept until the dream was quite finished and woke feeling deliciously cosy just as morning was breaking from its egg , and then she almost fell asleep again , and then she called out , `` Tony , '' for she thought she was at home in the nursery . As Tony made no answer , she sat up , whereupon her head hit the roof , and it opened like the lid of a box , and to her bewilderment she saw all around her the Kensington Gardens lying deep in snow . As she was not in the nursery she wondered whether this was really herself , so she pinched her cheeks , and then she knew it was herself , and this reminded her that she was in the middle of a great adventure . She remembered now everything that had happened to her from the closing of the gates up to her running away from the fairies , but however , she asked herself , had she got into this funny place ?
She stepped out by the roof , XXXXX over the garden , and then she saw the dear house in which she had passed the night .
Maimie Tony china forcing-houses ironmonger left minutes night right water-butt