His real name he told her was Lysander.

Anything that the Dean had the naming of received the benediction of ancient Greece, but Sandy, in his puppyhood, had managed to acquire a happy diminutive.
"I don't see," Kit said, laughingly, "why you dreaded a boy coming.

I know some awfully nice boys back home, and there's one specially"-- she paused just a moment, before she added--"named Billie.

He's kind of related to us, because his grandfather married Cousin Roxy, and she's my father's cousin.

It's a little bit hard to figure it out, but still we're related, and we're very, very good friends.