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comes because she's lonely"

The "quiet one" habitually flew high and kept high, so high indeed that,

after the first exciteave

herattention Up to that time Billy had been a hard,

a steady worker But now he see It

was doubtless an extra exasperation that the "quiet one" puzzled hi see the ti; it was al by it; and ever she perfected the figure that her

flight drew on the sky If she soared and dropped, she dropped and

soared If she curved and floated, she floated and curved If she dipped

and leaped, she leaped and dipped All this he could see But there were

scores of minor evolutions that appeared to hiht iyrations were not the

exercise of the elusive coquetry which distinguished Peachy It was more

that the "quiet one" was pushed on by some intellectual or artistic

impulse, that she expressed by the syht

some theory, some philosophy of life, that she traced out son, some primary pattern of beauty