Nick dear, I'm sorry.

I--I'm all right now.

Dad's very sweet to put it like that, pretending he doesn't mind a bit.

I don't know how ever I shall say good-bye to him." "You are really going then ?" said Max.
She looked at him with a fleeting smile.

"Yes, really!" she said.
"I congratulate you," he said.
Nick chuckled.