" "Surely there are not people there so ill?" "Worse.

" "What's so awful to me is that I can't see him as he was when he was young.

You would not believe how charming he was as a youth, but I did not understand him then.

" "I can quite, quite believe it.

How I feel that we might have been friends!" she said; and, distressed at what she had said, she looked round at her husband, and tears came into her eyes.