It'll only take a minute, I expect." "I'm sorry," said Mary.

"I hoped you'd come because we're neighbors." He chuckled.

"Neighbors! Sometimes people don't see so much o' their neighbors as they used to.

That is, I hear so--lately." "You'll stay long enough to sit down, won't you ?" "I guess I could manage that much." And they sat down, facing each other and not far apart.
"Of course, it couldn't be called business, exactly," he said, more gravely.

"Not at all, I expect.