"I'd like that," Mary says, and somehow she's managing to beam, even without smiling.

And then, clearly concentrating very hard to make sure she gets it right - it is not Yorkshire, not quite, but it is close: "I mean that I should like to be a lioness, I think - if that is like what the lion is, and like what thou are.

"And I should like to have a milkshake with thee too."