"Miss Hallie is nineteen this Satiddy, and you'll be nine next Satiddy.

A week from to-day is yoah buthday.

Pity it hadn't a-happened to be the same day, then maybe Mis' Haven mought a give you somethin' like Mis' Alice give Jintsey's boy." John Jay had that same thought all the rest of the way to Rosehaven, but after they entered the brilliantly illuminated grounds he seemed to stop thinking altogether.

It was a sight beyond all that his wildest imaginings had pictured.

He did not recognize the place.