I fancy, too, that yours is lighter than hers." "As a girl she must have had still more hair, and perhaps she may have been as fair as I was--I am brown now." "Another thing you inherit from her is that your hair, without being curly, lies upon your head in such soft waves." "It is easy to keep in order." "Are not you taller than she was ?" "I fancy so, but as she was stouter she looked shorter.

Will you soon have done ?" "You are getting tired of standing ?" "Not very." "Then have a little more patience.

Your face reminds me more and more of our early years; I should be glad to see Arsinoe once more.

I feel at this moment as if time had moved backwards a good piece.

Have you the same feeling ?" Selene shook her head.
"You are not happy ?" "No." "I know full well that you have very heavy duties to perform for your age." "Things go as they may." "Nay, nay.