“Well, I’m not sure. I’m going to⁠—⁠pretty soon. Good-bye, Eepersip⁠—⁠Aren’t you ever coming home?”

“Oh, Fleuriss, no!”

“I wish you would.”

“But I can’t.”

“Won’t you let me take Mother and Daddy to live over there?”

“Well, after a while⁠—⁠if you want to. I shan’t be there.”

“Why, where are you going?”

“I’m going to the beautiful, beautiful white mountains. And then maybe the sea again, Fleuriss⁠—⁠the sea.”

“Oo!”

“Coming?”