Then she said: "I don't know; I doubt if I was thinking of anything.

It seems to me I wasn't.

I think I was just being sort of sadly happy just then." "Were you?
Was it 'sadly,' too ?" "Don't you know ?" she said.

"It seems to me that only little children can be just happily happy.

I think when we get older our happiest moments are like the one I had just then: it's as if we heard strains of minor music running through them--oh, so sweet, but oh, so sad!" "But what makes it sad for YOU ?" "I don't know," she said, in a lighter tone.