Paging forward through the book, she came across a long-forgotten story of 
how, following her stepfather's disappearance, her wicked stepmother had taken 
the lockbox to a high cliff above the sea and flung it into the waves, 
destroying any evidence that Princess Nell was of royal blood. She had not 
known that her stepdaughter was watching
her from between the branches of a thicket, where she often concealed herself 
during her stepmother's rages.