Neith Boyce

“ Bowls of goldfish appear from nowhere, pictures and furniture move about, the doctor's red lamp is changed to blue—and the young man from America is driven into a brain-fever because he can’t explain how it is done. He is only saved by the Conjuror's telling him a lie—that he did it by a trick. Whereas the truth is, of course, that the real elemental spirits, real devils, were concerned, and everybody feels them in the room, though the Duke says it must have been electricity. ”

“ In fact, everybody objects to fairies, except the Duke, who is so broad-minded, or absent-minded, that he subscribes to everything. The nephew from America is furious at the idea of his sister walking by night in the park and meeting a stranger and calling him a fairy. Then the stranger enters and announces himself as the Conjuror, whom the Duke has hired to divert his niece's mind from fairies. Patricia is broken-hearted at the loss of her fairy-tale. But then the Conjuror produces his magic. ”

“ The Duke is perfectly delicious, and the Conjuror is a very convincing magician; and Patricia is such a nice girl that we are very glad she doesn’t lose her fairy-tale after all, except by its “coming true”, when she goes off with the Conjuror. ”