6 to 8 in the
morning
The Queen helped the Princess to disguise herself , which , of course , the Queen would never have done if she had known about the arrows ; and the King gave her some of his pension to buy a ticket with , so she went back quite quickly , by train , to her own kingdom . The usurping King at once engaged the French governess to teach his cook to read French cookery books , because the best recipes are in French . Of course he had no idea that there was a princess , _ the _ Princess , beneath the governessial disguise . The French lessons were from 6 to 8 in the morning and from 2 to 4 in the afternoon , and all the rest of the time the governess could spend as she liked . She spent it walking about the palace gardens and talking to her invisible hedge-pig . They talked about everything under the sun , and the hedge-pig was the best of company . ` How did you become invisible ? '