The girl looked up at the other girl with bewildered eyes. “I don’t understand at all, at all,” she said.
“Well, I would like to explain to you if I can. At first, of course, you will find it very difficult, being with us and getting accustomed to our ways; but after a time you will find it becoming easier and easier, and your father up in heaven will be looking down at you, ever so pleased.”
“Will he smile, belike?”
“I think he will.”
“I’ve a picter of him. I’d like to see him smile. Have you got ghosties and fairies round here?”
“Oh dear no, we don’t believe in those sort of things.”
“Yon tell me, miss, that you don’t believe in the magpie?
“One for sorrow,
Two for mirth,
Three for a wedding,