mingling with the moonlight, so that you could not have distinguished
one from the other.
"Come in, Irene," she said again. "Can you tell me what I am
spinning?"
"She speaks," thought Irene, "just as if she had seen me five minutes
ago, or yesterday at the farthest.--No," she answered; "I don't know
what you are spinning. Please, I thought you were a dream. Why
couldn't
I find you before, great-great-grandmother?"
"That you are hardly old enough to understand. But you would have
found
me sooner if you hadn't come to think I was a dream. I will give you
one
reason, though, why you couldn't find me. I didn't want you to find
me."
"Why, please?"
"Because I did not want Lootie to know I was here."
"But you told me to tell Lootie."
Madhuri Noah
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