"It is exactly like something fairy come true," she said. "There isn't the least difference.  I feel as if I might wish for anything--diamonds or bags of gold--and they would appear! THAT wouldn't be any stranger than this.  Is this my garret? Am I the same cold, ragged, damp Sara? And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were fairies! The one thing I always wanted was to see a fairy story come true.  I am LIVING in a fairy story. I feel as if I might be a fairy myself, and able to turn things into anything else."