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1862 64 LECTURES AT WINDSOR CASTLE 
both Serene and Royal, “ had no idea before 
that the frog was ever a tadpole ! ” or that the 
tadpole turned into a frog! I had described 
the chief part of the metamorphoses. After 
their Majesties’ departure there is of course much 
chat with the lords and ladies in waiting. Her 
Majesty sent to ask if I would see Beatrice 
after luncheon, and accordingly about a quarter to 
three I was conducted from the Lords in Waitings 
luncheon table, by an usher, to a long gallery, 
with oriel windows and beautiful paintings. The 
lady in special charge of little Beatrice led me 
some way along the gallery, where a short dis- 
tance further we came upon Lord Russell, and 
1 had a very cordial greeting from my neigh- 
bour in Richmond Park. Then we went on a 
little further, and again stopped, and 1 could see 
the Queen and King Leopold walking arm- 
in-arm along the further end of the gallery, 
which is in a curve, and coming towards us ; we 
stopped in the embrasure or oriel till they had 
turned back, and then crossed the gallery and 
out of a door which led along the passage to 
the Princess Beatrice’s room. She has beauti- 
ful long sandy golden hair, hanging wavy down 
her back. She will be eight years old on the 
14th of April. We went to the lecture-room, 
and I told her stories about the animals in the 
diagrams for about half an hour. She is con- 
sidered too young to come in to the lectures 
