"Blue? How funny!"

"The blue of a cloudless sky. That's how I see happiness. Tell me what's happened?"

"I just feel well and happy. I had a wonderful dream. I was about four, and there was a little boy with the most enchanting voice——"

O'Rane laughed and began to sing under his breath:

"'Long years ago—fourteen, maybe,

When but a tiny babe of four,

Another baby played with me,

My elder by a year or more—

A little child of beauty rare