"Of course there may be one explanation of why Walter's still there: J.A.maybe hasn't noticed that he IS there.

There's so many I expect he hardly knows him by sight." "Well, just do quit thinking about it," she urged him.

"It only bothers you without doing any good.

Don't you know that ?" "Don't I, though!" he laughed, feebly.

"I know it better'n anybody! How funny that is: when you know thinking about a thing only pesters you without helping anything at all, and yet you keep right on pestering yourself with it!" "But WHY ?" she said.