“Time’s Flying,” said Dad. He Smiled. He pointed to the air. “There it is, flying past! Catch it!” And he jumped, and caught Time in his hands, and showed it to Lizzie. She took it from him, and threw it up again.“There it goes,” she called. “Bye-bye. Bye-bye, Time!”
“A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.”
“Mizpah," he said.She blinked at him, a little dazed. "What?""A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.”
“Will your dad freak if I kiss you good-bye?” he asked.”
“...she had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess.”
“Bye-bye, Fuzzy. Bye-bye, Blinky. See you later, Egghead, and you, too, Froggie.”