I long to descend on Delphi." "Well, I don't know what to say, Kit.

I'll have to talk it over with your father first.

I wonder why Uncle Cassius thought we had a boy in the family, and why he wanted him specially." "Maybe he thought a boy would be more interested in antiques.

Are they Chinese porcelains and jewels, or just mummy things ?" "Mostly ruins, as I remember," laughed her mother.

"When he was young, Uncle Cassius used to be sent away by the Geographical Society to explore buried cities in Chaldea and Egypt." "Bless his heart, I wish I could coax him to start in again, right now, and take me with him," Kit exclaimed, blithely.