"Just a few minutes more?" he would always ask.
"You've been asking that for hours,
now good night Prince Apple Head Humpledink," replied the King.
Prince Apple Head Humpledink added in a whisper,
"but I can’t
go up there . . . there are THINGS in my room."
"For the one hundredth time," said the King,
"there are
no such things as THINGS in your room."
"Oh yes there are!" he cried as he ran to the Queen, hoping that she would save him.
