And that's why I say he's been so queer.

One minute he'll be just as nice and folksy as you could ask anybody to be, and the very next he's looking right through you as if he didn't see you at all, and you wonder and wonder what's the matter, and if you've done anything to displease him.
Sometimes he seems almost glad and happy, and then he'll look so sorry and sad! I just can't understand my father at all.
* * * * * _Another week later_.
I'm so excited I don't know what to do.

The most wonderful thing has happened.

I can't hardly believe it yet myself.

Yet it's so.