You are forgetting her uncle.
H.Oh, what use is HE?
Did you know him long?
How long was it?
C.Well, I don't know that I really knew him, but I must have met him, anyway.

I think it was that way; you can't tell about these things, you know, except when they are recent.
H.Recent?
When was all this?
C.Sixteen years ago.
H.What a basis to judge a book upon! As first you said you knew him, and now you don't know whether you did or not.
C.Oh yes, I know him; anyway, I think I thought I did; I'm perfectly certain of it.
H.What makes you think you thought you knew him?
C.Why, she says I did, herself.
H.SHE says so! C.Yes, she does, and I DID know him, too, though I don't remember it now.
H.Come--how can you know it when you don't remember it.
C._I_ don't know.

That is, I don't know the process, but I DO know lots of things that I don't remember, and remember lots of things that I don't know.

It's so with every educated person.
H.( AFTER A PAUSE).

Is your time valuable?
C.No--well, not very.
H.Mine is.
So I came away then, because he was looking tired.