And now you can feel how I have my mother always with me.

She tells me to hope, and that all mean things are of no importance, and that God intends us all to be as happy as is her beautiful smile." Then Mr.Carlyon asked again for the story of the Goddess's discovery, and heard all the details of how there was a ray of light in the dark passage, coming from some cleverly contrived crack on the first terrace.
Here Halcyone's foot had struck against the marble upon her original voyage of discovery, and by the other objects she encountered she supposed someone long ago, being in flight, had gradually dropped things which were heavy and of least value.

There was a breastplate as well, and an iron-bound box which she had never been able to move or open.
"You might help me and we could look into it some day," she said.
Mr.Carlyon took Aphrodite into his hands and raised her head, examining every point with minute care, and now her expression appeared to change and grow sad in the different effect of light.
"I do not want her to be up upon a pillar like Artemis and Hebe, who are still in the hall," Halcyone said.

"She could not talk to me then, she would be always the same.

I like to hold her this way and that, and then I can see her moods and the blue silks keeps her nice and warm." "It is a great possession," said Cheiron, "and I understand your joy in it," and he handed the head back to the child with respect.
Halcyone bent and caressed it with her soft little velvet cheek.
"See," she said.