Is it all that ?" "It could be--and more," said Cheiron.
"Then I will name her so." After this there was a long silence.

Mr.Carlyon would not interrupt what was evidently a serious moment to his little friend.

He waited, and then presently he turned the channel of her thoughts by asking her if she thought he might call on her Aunts that afternoon.
Halcyone hesitated a second.
"We hardly ever have visitors.

Aunt Ginevra has always said one must not receive what one cannot return, and they have no carriage or horses now, so they never see anyone.

Aunt Roberta would, but Aunt Ginevra does not let her, and she often says in the last ten years they have quite dropped out of everything.