"Would you have to stay supposing you didn't like it?" Edna was determined to get all the particulars.
"I suppose so; I'd have to stay till I was eighteen; I'm bound to do that."
Edna reflected. "I suppose that is what it means by being bound; you are just bound to stay. I wonder if anyone else was ever named Reliance," she went on, being much interested to hear something about so peculiar a name.
"My grandmother was, her that your grandmother knew."
"Oh, was she? Then you are named after your grandmother just as my sister Celia is named Cecelia after hers. Yours is a funny name, isn't it? I don't mean funny exactly, for I think it is quite pretty, but I never knew of anyone named that."
"I don't mind it when I get it all, but when my brothers called me Li I didn't like it. Your grandmother gives me the whole name, and I am glad she does; but she said they generally used to call my grandmother Lyley when she was a little girl."
"I think that is rather pretty, too, don't you?"
"Yes, but I like the whole name better."
"Then I will always call you by the whole name," Edna assured her. "Can you tell stories, Reliance?"
"Do you mean fibs or reading stories like—let's see—Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk?"