So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.

As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.

I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.

Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?

Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.