“I told you I was near your age — twenty. But I do not really know how old I am, I guess that I am twenty — thereabouts.”

“You look sixteen; not more — except the haunting sorrow — — ”

“I can remember full that length of time� . I must be twenty, Euan. When I was perhaps seven years old — or thereabout — I went to school — first in Schenectady to a Mistress Lydon; where were a dozen children near my age. And pretty Mistress Lydon taught us A — B — C and manners — and nothing else that I remember now. Then for a long while I was at home — which meant a hundred different lodgings — for we were ever moving on from place to place, where his employment led him, from one house