When your uncle wrote it out it was all in the first person, but not having been an eye-witness, as he was, it seemed to me I could better give the _spirit_ of the story by putting it into this form.

Do you understand at all better, dear?
When you have heard the whole to the end you will do so, I think.

All the part about Carlo I had from his own lips." "Thank you, grandmother dear.

I think I understand," said Molly, and she was philosophical enough to take no notice of the repeated whisper which reached her ears alone.

"Oh, you _are_ a goose!" It was not till the next evening that grandmother went on with the second part of her story.
"What do all those stars mean ?" asked Molly, peeping over her grandmother's shoulder before she began to read.