well, she said, it was very good to live where she did; she had all she wished. what she said beside i don't know, but i don't think any of them had the right end of the stick, or that they got much out of her. but so, in the afternoon, after they had done dinner, all happened as the white bear had said. her mother wanted to talk with her alone in her bedroom; but she minded what the white bear had said, and wouldn't go upstairs.