Maids hop up and down and clap their hands with glee at the idea.]
Rosalys. Where is she?
Christabel. Kitchen, I think. She said she had to bake bread first and cookies afterward.
Rosalys. Bread is important, but cookies aren't. Anyway it can't do any harm to ask her.
Amelotte. I'll go ! I'll go ! [And off she darts to the kitchen.]
Astolaine. [Wonderingly.] But what is the Princess doing in the kitchen?
Rosalys. Of course you don't understand about Snow White yet. It's a court secret. [To the others] But I think we ought to tell her right away, don't you? before she sees Snow White, or she might think . . .
- [They evidently agree, for they all rush at Astolaine and begin to speak at once.
Maids of Honour. I'll tell her! No, let me, I
