"I wish ladies had more of such stuff to give the world." "Ah, well, dreams may be wiser than wakings, and nonsense than learned talk, for all we know.

But there's an end of it.

I do not know why I repeated it to you.

I am sorry that I did repeat it, but it seemed so real it shook me out of myself.

This is what comes of breaking in upon the routine of life by being three parts drowned.