“He must have done so. He says he was lonely as a cloud, and I am Kitty Alone.”
“Is that your name?”
“They call me so because I have no companions and no friends, and because”--She checked herself and hung her head.
“But you have relatives.”
“Yes--my father and Aunt Zerah. But for all that I am alone. They are grown big and old, and so of course cannot understand me--a child. And at school I didn’t have friends. Then the man must have been here, for he says--
‘Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle in the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line