He could hardly wait to eat his supper.

Could he not see Nora's elfin face peering around the point, watching for him wistfully?
But it was a very sober Paul who came back from the shore in the twilight.
"Didn't you find your Rock People ?" asked Anne.
Paul shook his chestnut curls sorrowfully.
"The Twin Sailors and the Golden Lady never came at all," he said.

"Nora was there--but Nora is not the same, teacher.

She is changed." "Oh, Paul, it is you who are changed," said Anne.

"You have grown too old for the Rock People.