"Allegro, are you--sure ?" "Of course," said Olga.

"I don't know what you mean, dear.

Of course I came back, or I shouldn't be here now." "No--no, of course not!" Violet lay back in her chair, gazing straight up through the limes at the flawless August sky.

"So that is why I didn't die," she said.

"He only let me go--half-way.