It was some time before she came back, dropped from the impersonal to the personal, which is the normal attitude of most young people and of all the self-absorbed.
Simeon, who had been inspecting Dory from the far upper end of the hammock, now descended to the floor of the veranda, and slowly advanced toward him.

Dory put out his hand.

"How are you, cousin ?" he said, gravely shaking Simeon's extended paw.

Simeon chattered delightedly and sprang into Dory's lap to nestle comfortably there.
"I always thought you would fall in love with Estelle, some day," Adelaide was saying.
Dory looked at Simeon with an ironical smile.

"Why does she say those things to me ?" he asked.