"Do you ?" Edward looked round before he answered, to see if they were quite alone, and then said: "No; I was sorry a long time about papa, but one can't go on being sorry forever.

Perhaps grown-up people can." "Mamma can," said little Maggie.

"Sometimes I am very sorry too; when I am by myself or playing with you, or when I am wakened up by the moonlight in our room.

Do you ever waken and fancy you heard papa calling you?
I do sometimes; and then I am very sorry to think we shall never hear him calling us again." "Ah, it's different with me, you know.

He used to call me to lessons." "Sometimes he called me when he was displeased with me.