Cousin Hetty says I go about with my head in the clouds half the time.

I would love to think that the other part is true, too.
She said it in such a sweet solemn sort of a way, as if she laid some kind of a spell on my hand that was not to be broken.

'It will keep its promises to the utmost,' she said, and I feel that it will have to do it now, just because she said so." "That is Aunt Allison's way," answered Keith.

"Nobody knows how much she has helped Malcolm and me by giving us these, and expecting us to live up to them." He touched a little badge on the lapel of his coat, as he spoke.

It was a tiny flower of white enamel, with a little diamond in the centre, like a drop of dew.
"What is that for ?" asked Betty, curiously.