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 on the tombstone it says, "his virtues are with us still.

Aren't you a silly!' said Lilith, laughing in Spoon-billish derision. Lilith was twelve, and one knows vastly more at twelve than at nine. 'Virtues aren't anything. And as for Roland's—that doesn't mean that he left them with us, any more than that he took them with him.'

Then what does it mean?' said Delilah. 'I've thought so much about it.'

You'll have to think some more,' said Lilith—'a good deal more, I should say—of your kind of thinking!'

"Delilah did not often appeal to her sister in these matters. She did not enjoy Lilith's habit of laughing. In truth, she didn't enjoy being laughed at at all—not the least in the world. She was like a great many other people.

"And so was Lilith.