It seemed to had lasted until morning. Akito got to the last page, then yawned and flopped back against the bed, lulling his eyes shut.

"Morning, Akito." Estelle greeted her twin.

"Hm?" Akito looked over.

"Hi." Estelle smiled.

"Morning already?" Akito asked.

"Oui, oui." Felicity nodded.

Vincent was staring out the window, yet again.

"Wow, I guess that book longer than I thought." Akito yawned.

The Fudo siblings and their cousin then got dressed and ready for the morning.

Eloise was already awake and had a sneaky smirk on her face that only her cousins noticed.

"All right, what's up?" Vincent asked her.

"The Prince of Kushin is coming to the hotel for the Ball." Eloise replied.

"And your plan is?" Akito asked.

"I'm going to ask him to be my date for the ball." Eloise replied like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Cool." Estelle smiled.

Eloise had a lot of questions this morning as she sat upside down in her arm chair while on the telephone with room service, but no one answered yet. "How would I find the prince? How would I get him to ask me to the ball? What did Mr. Nye want to talk about? What did my mother send me? And what would happen if you threw a pitcher of water down the mail chute?... That's rather a lot to think about when you're six."

'Yes, Eloise?' a voice finally replied to her.

Eloise then sat right side up. "Yes, it's Eloise," she informed before going on. "We'd like six croissants, an artichoke-"

Nanny put her hand up.

"Oatmeal so I don't dry up, with four orders of pancakes..." Eloise then continued, adding in the pancakes for her cousins since they liked them the last time, then saw Nanny gestured again. "And some rather hot coffee, and charge it please, thank you very much."

"Can't wait for breakfast." Estelle smiled.

Eloise ran all the way to the door and opened it, then ran right back and sat back in her chair.

Nanny glanced at her for that. "Well?"

"Well?" Eloise looked back.

"The door." Nanny prompted.

"The chair." Eloise sunk in her seat.

Nanny shook her head, then stood up to walk over and get the door. "I don't know what's happened to your manners this morning..."

Eloise watched her nanny get up to close the door, then smirked once she did.

"What are you to?" Akito smirked.

"Oh, nuthin'..." Eloise smiled not so innocently.

Nanny went over to close the doors, but as she did, the man from the morning before was walking by which made her instantly stop.

"You knew that would happen, didn't you?" Akito whispered to Eloise.

"Maybe?" Eloise giggled innocently.

"You sneaky little girl." Estelle giggled.

Eloise put her hand to her mouth and giggled back. "Merci beacuop."

Nanny froze as she watched Sir Wilkes walk off, he looked over to the woman slightly and tipped his hat to her and she smiled back shyly, trying to close the door, but was as nervous as a shy school girl.

"She really, really likes him." Estelle smiled.

"Uh-huh." Eloise nodded as she secretly watched with Akito, Estelle, Vincent, and Felicity.

"They'll be perfect together." Akito said.

"Oh, yes..." Felicity agreed. "Nanny deserves the happiness in her life."

"Yes, yes, she does." Eloise smiled.

Nanny still seemed shy to speak with Sir Wilkes, but at least he acknowledged her existence today.

"Oh, my lord," Eloise suddenly said after the man left which startled Nanny slightly. "Why don't you talk to him?"

Nanny sighed and shook her head at the child. "Now that is just rude, rude, rude..."

"Eloise is right, Nanny, you should just talk to him." Vincent said.

"Just say what's in your head," Eloise added in. "Or at least ask him to tea."

"It's just not done, children," Nanny replied in decline. "He's a knight, he's above my station, besides, if anybody does the asking, he should ask me."

The doorbell then buzzed.

"Now, who could that be?" Estelle asked before going up to the door.

As the doors opened, there were church bells heard from nowhere and Bill was hunched over slightly with a blanket around his body and he tried to make himself look weary and pathetic. "The bells! The bells!" he grunted out, trying out his acting.

"Oh, my, who do we have here?" Estelle asked, acting scared.

"We don't have time for this," Eloise ripped the blanket off of Bill, dropping his hunchback gimmick for the day. "What can you tell me about the prince?"

Bill and Nanny looked to each other, then looked back at the little blonde girl. "What prince?"

"The Prince of Kushin, don't you know?" Eloise prompted, walking backwards as Bill walked forward with the breakfast trays. "He's coming to the Plaza and taking me to the Debutante Ball!"

"Yeah, now tell us what you know." Vincent said.

"Oh, is that so?" Bill asked, still seeming like he didn't know as he served them breakfast.

"He's tall and handsome and wears cuff links made of small blue stones..." Eloise swooned. "Or at least that's how I imagine him."

"Well, you're not going anywhere until you've had your breakfast." Nanny firmly replied before walking off to get dressed.

"I'll see what I can find out, but I know who you should talk to about the ball." Bill whispered to the kids once Nanny was out of earshot.

"You got it, Bill." Akito whispered.

Eloise signed her name, then looked curious.

"Mrs. Daniels." Bill then informed of who they should talk to about the upcoming ball.

"Her?" Eloise raised an eyebrow.

Bill nodded and he took the check since it was now time to go. "See you later."

Eloise then grabbed the blanket and threw it to him as he left. "Don't forget your hump!"

"Who's Mrs. Daniels again?" Ditto asked as he entered the room.

"I'll show you after breakfast." Eloise said as she gave him his own food.

Ditto then nodded to her ate his own breakfast.

"Hey, I found something!" Weenie yipped as he walked over with a book in his mouth.

"It's a book." Estelle said.

"Oh, not just any book," Nanny cooed as she bent down and picked up the book after the dog dropped it. "'The Little Prince'. I love this book..." she then looked to the kids. "Is it one of yours?"

"No, no, no!" Eloise firmly shook her head. "Phillip the Grump left it yesterday."

"'The Little Prince'?" Vincent asked. "I don't think I've ever heard of that story before."

"It's an absolute favorite of mine," Nanny replied. "But it doesn't belong to us... I'll give Phillip a ring," she then turned to the kids. "Now, you park your bottoms down and eat!"

"Yes, Nanny." Akito said.

The others walked over to eat their breakfast. Eloise stuck her tongue out in disgust once she took a spoonful out of her oatmeal, hating it already, but Nanny insisted that she eats it for breakfast or else she would 'dry up'.

"Go ahead, Eloise, try it." Akito said.

"Easy for you to say..." Eloise wrinkled her nose, she then noticed the time and looked to the water pitcher. She then hopped out of her seat and ran to the pitcher, picking it up, and rushing out to the hallway.

"Where is she going?" Estelle wondered.

Akito decided to follow Eloise.

Eloise was standing in front of a chute as envelopes were falling down it, she was about to pour the water down it, but she heard the elevator, so she stopped what she was doing so she wouldn't get into trouble.

"Eloise, what are you doing?" Akito asked.

"Shh." Eloise shushed him as she heard the elevator.

A couple of adults walked out of the elevator and there were men in uniform with a young boy who was standing close to them.

Eloise sighed dreamily and excitedly. "The Prince!"

"How can you be so sure that's the prince?" Akito whispered.

Eloise walked into the elevator before Max would close it. Akito groaned quietly before coming along with Eloise. Luckily, he made it into the elevator before it shut. The men glanced at the little boy and girl and kept their eyes forward. Max said nothing as usual.

'How am I not surprised that Max doesn't say a word?' Akito thought to himself.

Eloise stared at the two men.

"Ix-nay on the info-ma about the ince-pray." one man said to the other.

Eloise however got even. "I eak-spay ig-pay atin-lay oo-tay."

The men then glanced to each other.

"Are those for the prince?" Eloise then asked.

The men tried to ignore her, but it wasn't easy.

"The Prince of Kushin..." Eloise continued. "Have you ever been to Kushin?"

'Those two seem oddly suspicious.' Akito thought to himself.

Eloise frowned and turned to her cousin. "Here's what I hate: Being ignored."

Akito tried to think of something. "Why don't you try to put some of your acting from Bill and your mother into good use."

Eloise smirked, then pretended to look rather sick. "Ooh, ooh, what's happening?! Suddenly feel faint!" she came between the men and fell on the floor behind them.

The elevator dinged and once it did, the two men walked out of it, still trying to avoid the blonde girl.

"Well, that didn't work." Akito said.

Eloise stood up and looked at the floor eight and smiled once she had another idea. "I have an idea, but first, I have to go to the lobby to check something, would you like to come?" she then asked the cousin she loved like a big brother.

"Sure." Akito shrugged.