Summary

Chapter 10, The Queen, begins with Sophie sitting upon the Queen’s windowsill behind the curtain waiting for the Queen to experience the nightmare and wake to find her. As Sophie watches, the Queen cries out in her sleep. There is a knock at the bedroom door and Mary, the Queen’s servant, enters the room. The Queen tells her that she’s just had a horrible dream about children being snatched from their beds at their boarding schools and eaten by giants. Mary’s face goes white and she drops the tray she’s carrying. She tells the Queen that newspapers have been reporting that children have been disappearing from their boarding schools and bones have been found beneath the windows.

Mary then opens the curtains and screams when she sees Sophie. The Queen looks up...