"I've been looking all around for you.

Mother wants you to come over to dinner with us at just twelve o'clock.

You're going away with father as soon as we get through." I wanted to go but got the notion all at once that the Dunkelbergs were in need of information about me and that the time had come to impart it.
So then and there, that ancient Olympus of our family received notice as it were.
"I can't," I said.

"I've got to study my lessons before I go away with your father." It was a blow to her.

I saw the shadow that fell upon her face.