“Your star did not come to his time. It was four minutes to seven
o’clock when he appeared, and that is four minutes too soon.
How is that, father? I must ask you, for it is of no use asking the
star.
Perhaps you will still wonder when I tell you that to-morrow evening it
will be eight minutes to seven before it gets up at this place.
Why, this is like the sun among the stars--always getting out of his
place. But the sun gets right after a year.
Do you think our star will ever get right--so as to rise at seven some
other evening?