That letter was from Uncle Cassius Cato Peabody." "Well, what if it is ?" asked Jean, shaking the needles from her serge skirt as she rose leisurely.
Kit drew on her freshman knowledge of ancient history, and quoted: "Last night the eagles circled over Rome, And Caesar's destiny----" Jean laughed and pointed to a line of crows rising leisurely from a clump of pine woods.
"What does it mean when the crows circle over Gilead ?" Kit jammed her velvet "tam" down over one ear adventurously, and started towards the gateway, finishing the quotation as she went: "-- crowned him thrice king!".