But when she did so choose, she listened with her whole mind, and was lost to all else.

Phebe smiled with quiet amusement at her friend's intensity in every thing, and turned with the smile on her face to Halloway.

He was not smiling at all, but he too was looking fixedly at Gerald.
"It has been lovely having her here, but how we shall miss her, shall we not, when she goes ?" said Phebe, softly.
"Goes ?" repeated Halloway, blankly.

"It is scarcely September yet." "What, have you not heard ?" exclaimed Phebe.

"Do you not know?
Gerald has been sent for.