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"Oh, indeed, two birds with one stone, you're quite right," I said "Though I'reat deal more to it "

"But you'll help us noon't you?"

"I will indeed I's up I have an instinct for it I owned a great playhouse in a faraway city, and after that an island of fancy shops, and other such things I am a monster in ain "

"You're truly beauty fall, you know," he said raising one eyebrow and then giving arette and then offered it to me His left hand kept the lily safe

"Can't Only drink blood," I said "A regular vampire out of the book in thevery soon You mustn't touch this door "

"Ha!" he laughed with iht "That's what I told her!" He rolled his eyes and glanced in the direction of the living rooht away, but she said, no, you'd think of that "

"How right she was The rooh I really do "

"And can you make us vampires too?"

"Oh, never Absolutely not You're pure of heart and too alive, and I don't have such a power It's never done It can't be "

Again, he shrugged "Then who made you?" he asked

"I was born out of a black egg," I said "We all are "

He gave a scoffing laugh

"Well, you've seen all the rest," I said "Why not believe the best part of it?"

He only smiled and puffed his smoke, and looked at me most knavishly

The piano sang on in crashing cascades, the rapid notesas fast as they were born, so like the last thin snowflakes of the winter, vanishing before they strike the pavements