Thus they had many talks upon history and the natural sciences and poetry and painting.

But to hear of the famous statues and learn from pictures to know the styles of the old sculptors seemed to please her best of all.
By the fifth day, a Friday, Mr.Carlyon began to feel a desire to see his little pupil again and sent her a message by his dark, silent servant.

Would she not take tea with him that afternoon?
So Halcyone came.

She was very quiet and subdued and crept through her gap in the hedge without any leaps or bounds.
John Derringham was stretched the whole length of his long, lean limbs under the apple tree--her apple tree! This did not produce a favorable note.
Cheiron watched the meeting with inward amusement.
"This is my little friend Halcyone La Sarthe," he said.

"Halcyone, yonder Tityus in these latter days is known by the name of John Derringham--of Derringham in the County of Northampton.