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IV] Sylvie stopped him, laughingly, as he ran off. "Wait a minute," she said. "I must make you visible first, you know."

"And audible too, I suppose?" I said, as she took the jewel, that hung round her neck, and waved it over his head, and touched his eyes and lips with it. [sic]

"Yes," said Sylvie: "and once, do you know, I made him audible, and forgot to make him visible! And he went to buy some sweeties in a shop. And the man was so frightened! A voice seemed to come out of the air, 'Please, I want two ounces of barley-sugar drops!' And a shilling came bang down upon the counter! And the man said 'I ca'n't see you!' And Bruno said 'It doosn't sinnify seeing me, so long as oo can see the shilling!' But the man said he never sold barley-sugar drops to people he couldn't see. So we had toNow, Bruno, you're ready!" And away he trotted.

Sylvie spent the time, while we were waiting for him, in making herself visible also. "It's rather awkward, you know," she explained to me, "when we meet people, and they can see one of us, and ca'n't see the other!"