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Quotation from Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
“Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof.”
Five Children and It, Chapter 1 (Project Gutenberg #778)
The narrator prepares readers to believe that the children found a fairy.
Citation: "Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof." — E. Nesbit, Five Children and It, Chapter 1 (Project Gutenberg #778). (id five-children-and-it-q2)
Portrait: Nesbit, Unknown author, Public domain.
