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He looked at the child with new interest , but Betty did not smile back at him . She did not like being laughed at . `` It 's true , '' she said ; `` they did fall out of heaven in a swarm , and it was like over at High Knob on the river bank , only a million times higher , because they were so long falling . ` From morn till noon they fell , from noon till dewy eve . ' '' Betty looked off into space with half-closed eyes . She was seeing them fall . `` It was a long time to be in suspense , was n't it , father ? ''