“Vanished? How could Prince Charming vanish?”
“I don’t know.”
“Have you looked in his bedchamber?”
“Of course. He’s not there.”
“Well, he was meant to have a suit-fitting for the ball in an hour – maybe he just decided to do that earlier. Or maybe he went somewhere else. It happens. We thought we had lost Puss in Boots once, but he was chasing a bluebird up in the trees.”
“No, he’s definitely vanished. Here, look at the cover.”
The book cover usually showed Cinderella loo