What I want to know,” she said, “is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars? - P. L. Travers

Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

She paused, as though she were remembering events that happened hundreds of years before that time.

We Butchers, you know, like a bit of company. And we don’t often get the chance of talking to a nice, handsome young lady like you — — ” He broke off suddenly, for he had caught sight of Mary Poppins’s face.