"Not I regard that as worse than my 'Eldad' and 'Bildad.'" "I know it, and Alice says--By the way, you haven't mentioned Alice, but I suppose you see her occasionally." Billy paused in evident expectation of a reply.

Billy was, in fact, quite pluming herself on the adroit casualness with which she had introduced the subject nearest her heart.
Calderwell raised his eyebrows.
"Oh, yes, I see her." "But you hadn't mentioned her." There was the briefest of pauses; then with a half-quizzical dejection, there came the remark: "You seem to forget.

I told you that I stayed here this summer for reasons too numerous, and one too heart-breaking, to mention.

She was the _one_." "You mean--" "Yes.

The usual thing.