And she said not to get silly notions into my head.

And she wasn't a bit flushed and teary, as she had been the night before, and she didn't talk at all as she had then, either.

And it's been that way ever since.

Things have gone along in just the usual humdrum way, and she's never been the same as she was that night I came.
Something--a little something--_did_ happen yesterday, though.

There's going to be another big astronomy meeting here in Boston this month, just as there was when Father found Mother years ago; and Grandfather brought home word that Father was going to be one of the chief speakers.