"Oh, I saw the light in your window," she explained, "and I thought maybe it was a little lost star. You see, we have to look out for them. When we do find a star that has lost its way we take it back--"
"Do you stick it up there with a pin?"
This question seemed to strike her as very amusing, and she laughed. And when she laughed it sounded like church bells far, far off, or the voice of the Brook.
"Oh, no," she said as soon as she could speak. "Do I look as if I could be stuck up there by a pin?"
"No-o-o, but what do you do? Just float around--or swim?"
"Well, that's the way you Earth people would put it--but we have another word for it."
"What is the word?"
She shook her head.
"That I can't tell you, for you'd never understand it, but it's a very pretty word."
Marmaduke sighed.