Princess of Glass by George Jessica Day

Author:George, Jessica Day [George, Jessica Day]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Young Adult, Fiction
ISBN: 9781599904788
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Published: 2010-07-15T07:00:00+00:00

Either dancing with Prince Christian had given her a new confidence, or her godmother was somehow watching out for her, Ellen thought as she ironed. The iron's temperature remained constant and the wrinkles smoothed down just as they should. There was no scorching of fabric, no burning of fingers. Ellen practically sang as she worked, and the stares of the other maids as she filled a basket with neatly ironed and folded linens couldn't dampen her spirits in the slightest. Even the soot that seemed to sift its way into the folds of her clothes and cover everything she touched was gone.

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Her good mood was finally ruined, however, when she burst out of the passageway from the servants' domain and ran straight into Prince Christian. The basket of ironed linens between them, they gazed at each other, startled, for a moment.

Ellen's heart began to race, and the blood thrummed in her ears so loudly that it took her a moment to understand what he was saying to her. When she finally comprehended his words, she felt her cheeks burn even hotter.

"Pardon me," Prince Christian said again, and stepped around her. He whistled as he made his way to the water closet.

The complete lack of recognition in his face shook her. Had he not known her because of her maid's uniform? She turned it over and over in her mind as she went about the rest of her tasks that day.

Had he only looked at her clothes, and not at her face? Roger Thwaite had known her, known her the instant he had seen her at the ball. Poppy had known her as well, but Marianne and Lady Margaret hadn't recognized her and clearly thought that Poppy was mistaken.

Ellen's godmother had said that she would cast a "mild glamour" over her, so there would be no hue and cry over a maid attending the royal gala, but surely a mild glamour wouldn't prevent Prince Christian from knowing the dance partner he had been smitten with just hours before! Should she tell him? She would have to, eventually, if they were to be wed.

Worrying, too, was the cavalier way the Corley had shooed her out of her palace, aching feet and all. Ellen had hoped, deep down, that her godmother would let her stay in the glass-pillared

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palace from now on. That she would be allowed to take on the role of Lady Ella all the time, and not return to being Ellen the maid.

But she would be attending Marianne's birthday ball as Lady Ella. And then there was the masked ball at the palace. By the end of the masquerade she would have a proposal of marriage and she could finally quit her maid's position for her new life.

With Prince Christian.

As she came down the stairs to the kitchen again, she caught a glimpse of a tall figure with dark hair coming out of the parlor. Her heart pounding, Ellen ducked behind a curtain and peeped out. It was Roger, and she didn't want him to see her in her maid's uniform.

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