Miss Lansdale remained incurious and merely said, "Long golden braids," as one trying to picture them.
"And later a little row of curls over each ear, and a tiny chain with a locket around the neck.

I had a picture once--" "You have had many pictures." "Yes--two are many if you've had nothing else." But she was now regarding the woman child with a curious, close look, almost troubled in its intensity.
"Do you look like your mother ?" she asked.
"Papa says I do, and Uncle Maje thinks so too.

She was very pretty," This came with an unconscious placidity.
"She looks almost as her mother's picture did," I said.
When the child had gone, Miss Lansdale searched my face long before speaking.

She seemed to hesitate for words, and at length to speak of other matters than those which might have perplexed her.
"Why did they call you 'Horsehead' ?" she asked almost kindly.
"I never asked.

It seemed to be a common understanding.