“‘When will he be here?’
“‘What is he coming for?’ They were like seven interrogation points!
“‘I don’t know,’ said Orion. ‘I don’t remember who told me—and I’m not quite sure what. Everybody but you seems to know about it.’
“‘Did you ever know any one so tiresome?’ asked Maia. And six Pleiades girls said they never had, and ‘We’ll have to ask some one else.’
“So, off they went to try to find out what was going to happen; and how anybody knew about it.
“It was a curious thing, but by the time they had talked with the other Star People, they were in the same state as Orion and all the others. No one could tell quite where he had heard it, and no one knew exactly what he had heard; but every one had a perfectly clear impression that a visitor was coming from the Far-Away Isles.
“When they tried to talk a little more definitely about him, they did not altogether agree. Still, there was a strong idea that he was young and splendid and handsome, of course; some one very distinguished in his own country.”
“A prince, for instance?” asked Phyllisy.
“More than likely.—
“‘What do you suppose he is coming for?’ asked Maia.