But it's years ago now, isn't it ?" "Six years," said Max.
"Yes, I remember.

How I should like to have known him! But I was at school then.

And you knew him well ?" "I was with him when he died," he said.
"Oh!" said Olga, and then with a touch of shyness, "I'm sorry, Max." "No," he said.

"You needn't be sorry.

He was no shirker.