They are to be watched in their pretty flitting, loved only in their freedom and from afar, with no clumsy reachings.

That was a good thing to know in any world.
The _Argus_ announced my home-coming with a fine flourish of my title in Solon's best style.

It said that I had come back to take up the practice of the law.

Not even Solon knew that I had come back to the memory of her.
This is how it befell that I was presently engrossed to outward seeming with the affairs of Little Arcady--even to the extent of a casual Potts, and those blessed contingencies that were later to unfold from him.

Thus I took my allotted place and the years began..