You might just say, 'How have you been for the last twelve months ?'" "Oh, I do take an interest, and I'm grateful to you--I can't tell you how grateful.

But I have no time to think either of you or myself now," she said, eagerly.

"If you knew everything, you'd understand." "I know practically nothing," I confessed; "still, I do understand.

I was only teasing you.

Forgive me.