25/30 Did they ASK you to sit down ?" "No, they did not ask me, but I suppose they did not think of it." "You have an unerring instinct. What else did you do? Your delicacy is beyond praise. Go on, go on--don't mind my apparent misery--I always look so when I am steeped in a profound and reverent joy. Go on--she told you her age ?" "Yes, she told me her age, and all about her mother, and her grandmother, and her other relations, and all about herself." "Did she volunteer these statistics ?" "No, not exactly that. |