It is comparatively easy to be free from envy if one is what George Taylor termed a "never-was"; for a "has been" it is harder.
The boat's name was the only portion of my remark which attracted her attention.
"The Comfort ?" she repeated.

"That is a jolly name for a pleasure boat." "It is my mother's name," I answered.
"Is it?
Why, I remember now.

Miss Dean told me.

I beg your pardon, Mr.
Paine.

It is a pretty name, at all events." "Thank you." "I must have misunderstood Father.