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 you may not want me when I tell you who I am. It may be dangerous. ..

[Hopefully.] Do you steal?

[Smiling.] No, not so bad as that. My name is Snow White.

It sounds extremely clean.

This morning I was a Princess. [She sits on ''bed to tell her story. She is growing drowsy again.'']

What's a princess?

. Why, the daughter of a king and queen. My step-mother is Queen Brangomar. [More sleepily.] She hates me so much that I'm afraid there must be something horrid about me. . . [she is very drowsy now] but I'm sure Prince Florimond didn't not like me. . . for. . . [She sinks back onto the bed and her eyes close. The ''pull their fingers to their lips. Then she revives a little and murmurs,''] for a year and a day. . . oh, what was I saying? I'm so sleepy.