Becky, Servant at Minchin Seminary Quotes in The Little Princess (1939)

Sara Crewe: Here she is, on the bookshelves.

Ram Dass, Lord Wickham's Indian Servant: Bookshelves.

Sara Crewe: Oh... I pretend they're bookshelves filled with beautiful sets of books.

Ram Dass, Lord Wickham's Indian Servant: Then I'd better remove her before she ruins your set of Dickens. This is your room, Miss?

Sara Crewe: Yes, it's so little and so high above everything that it's like a nest in a tree. I can lie on my soft sofa and look up at the sky through that little hole in the roof.

Ram Dass, Lord Wickham's Indian Servant: Sofa?

Sara Crewe: Well... it looks more like a sofa when it's made up, and I imagine it has warm blankets and lovely cushions to curl up on.

Ram Dass, Lord Wickham's Indian Servant: But there is a fire at night, of course?

Sara Crewe: Well... that is the hardest of all to imagine, especially at night, but it's lovely when I can.

Becky, Servant at Minchin Seminary: The cook wants you, and she's in an awful mood!

Sara Crewe: Excuse me, Ram Dass, I've got to go to the butcher's, and I'll get my ears boxed if I don't hurry!

Mrs. O'Connell the Cook: You clumsy ox! For that, you'll whistle for your supper!

Becky, Servant at Minchin Seminary: Oh, but, Mum, Sara never got no lunch. Everything's away before she got back from the butcher's.

Mrs. O'Connell the Cook: Who do you think you're talking to? For that, you'll both go hungry! Now, clean up this mess!

Becky, Servant at Minchin Seminary: Do you see what I do?

Sara Crewe: I don't know what you see, but I don't think I believe what I'm seeing.

Becky, Servant at Minchin Seminary: Well I never.

Sara Crewe: Do you feel that?

Becky, Servant at Minchin Seminary: Yes, Miss.

Sara Crewe: What do you see?

Becky, Servant at Minchin Seminary: I see a fire, Miss.

Sara Crewe: And a table with food on it, and a rug and a lamp, and slippers.

Becky, Servant at Minchin Seminary: I do indeed, Miss. How did it all get here? Did you pretend it into happening?

Sara Crewe: I don't know. I've never pretended as good as this before. Look at these.