“So sad to-day, Miss Alice?”
“Oh, yes; I am very unhappy!”
“May I ask why?”
“Papa told me just now, that we are going home to-morrow.”
“Am I perhaps the happy one, on whose account you are so very unhappy?”
The Swan Song
“Is it true, mamma, that swans sing before they die?”
“Yes, my child! but come, stop feeding them or you will make them ill.”
“That is just what I want to do. I am going to feed them till they die. I do want to hear a swan-song, so much!”