But there are such loads of things to think about, that I get absorbed in them and can't attend sometimes directly on the minute." "Absent-mindedness should be corrected rather than encouraged," Miss Bilson announced, sententious even amid her tears.
"Oh! it amounts to more than absent-mindedness I'm afraid--a sort of absent-every-thingedness when it overtakes me.

For the whole of me seems to go away and away, hand in hand and all together," Damaris said, her eyes alight with questions and with dreams.

"But don't let us discuss that now," she added.

"It would waste time, and it is you who must go away and away, Billy, if you are not to put the poor Miss Minetts into a frantic fuss by being late for tea.

They will think some accident has happened to you.