"Don't let that trouble you, Alice," said Corrie, as they sat down together under the tree. "I know what you were about to say,—Henry and his mother are going away."
"How do you know that? I thought it was a great secret!"
"So it is, a tremendous secret," rejoined Corrie, with a look that was intended to be very mysterious; "and I know it, because I've been let into the secret for reasons which I cannot tell even to you. But there is another secret which you don't know yet, and which will surprise you perhaps, I am going away, too."
"You!" exclaimed the little girl, her eyes dilating to their full size.
"Aye—me!"
"You're jesting, Corrie."
"Am I? I wish I was; but it's a fact."
"But where are you going to?" said Alice, her eyes filling with tears.
"I don't know."
"Corrie!"