Hers, she said, was Lillian May.
"But your uncle, now--that gentleman--he called you _Nancy_ when you came in." He waited for her solving of this.
"Oh, Uncle Doctor doesn't know it yet, what my _real_ name is.

They call me Nancy, but that's a very disagreeable name, so I took Lillian May for my real name.

But I tell _very_ few persons," she added, importantly.

Here he was at home; he knew about choosing a good name.
"Did you give up the gold-piece you found ?" he asked.

But this puzzled her.
"'A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,'" he reminded her.
"Didn't you find a gold-piece like Ben Holt did ?" But it seemed she had never found anything.