Here 's your own gate , '' said Cecily . But Sara could not give up the delights of the show . So she walked on , a small , miserable testimony that the way of the transgressor is never easy , even when said transgressor is only a damsel of eleven . The magic lantern show was a splendid one . The views were good and the lecturer witty . We repeated his jokes to each other all the way home . Sara , who had not enjoyed the exhibition at all , seemed to feel more cheerful when it was over and she was going home . The Story Girl on the contrary was gloomy . `` There WERE Markdale people there , '' she confided to me , `` and the Williamsons live next door to the Cowans , who have measles . I wish I 'd never egged Sara on to going -- but do n't tell Felicity I said so . If Sara Ray had really enjoyed the show I would n't mind . But she did n't . I could see that . So I 've done wrong and made her do wrong -- and there 's nothing to show for it . '' The night was scented and mysterious . The wind was playing an eerie fleshless melody in the reeds of the brook hollow . The sky was dark and starry , and across it the Milky Way flung its shimmering misty ribbons . `` There 's four hundred million stars in the Milky Way , '' quoth Peter , who frequently astonished us by knowing more than any hired boy could be expected to . He had a retentive memory , and never forgot anything he heard or read . The few books left to him by his oft-referred-to Aunt Jane had stocked his mind with a miscellaneous information which sometimes made Felix and me doubt if we knew as much as Peter after all .
Felicity was so impressed XXXXX his knowledge of astronomy that she dropped back from the other girls and walked beside him .
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