And a graveyard is not the place for people to look charming.
She also looked startled and confused, but not more startled and confused than Bibbs.

In "Edith's" poem he had declared his intention of hiding his heart "among the stars"; and in his boyhood one day he had successfully hidden his body in the coal-pile.

He had been no comrade of other boys or of girls, and his acquaintances of a recent period were only a few fellow-invalids and the nurses at the Hood Sanitarium.

All his life Bibbs had kept himself to himself--he was but a shy onlooker in the world.

Nevertheless, the startled gaze he bent upon the unexpected lady before him had causes other than his shyness and her unexpectedness.