Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno

The old man said nothing: but I could see his eyes fill with tears, as he bent his head and pressed his lips to her forehead in a long loving kiss. Then he undid the chain, and showed her how to fasten it round her neck, and to hide it away under the edge of her frock. “It’s for you to keep you know he said in a low voice, not for other people to see. You’ll remember how to use it?

Yes, I’ll remember, said Sylvie.

“And now darlings it’s time for you to go back or they’ll be missing you and then that poor Gardener will get into trouble!”

Once more a feeling of wonder rose in my mind as to how in the world we were to get back again — since I took it for granted that wherever the children went I was to go — but no shadow of doubt seemed to cross their minds as they hugged and kissed him murmuring over and over again “Good-bye darling Father!” And then suddenly and swiftly the darkness of midnight seemed to close in upon us and through the darkness harshly rang a strange wild song:

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