Excerpt from Lucy of the Stars My hosts are very lovable, he wrote, in late August, and nothing is quite so clear as that they are in nowise responsible for my being depressed and bored. I consult my diary and find that to-day is the twenty-eighth, and we left on the fourteenth. Undeniably, then, I have been only two weeks away. Possibly I am still in the coma of some new midsummer disease that will not let me con centrate my mind long enough to read even a novel through. I have tried three and finished none. Two weeks! It seems two months! There followed a page and more about people and places. This part Lucy skimmed, and, return ing to the study Of the sentences quoted, she found them one moment intelligible, the next confusing. The second telegram, which came only a few hours after the letter, dispelled previous doubts; filled in previous lapses with sudden comprehension. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.