Get out and shake hands and be sociable, after you've done your duty by the fruit.

How are things at home ?" "Mother is herself again, I am glad to say.

George, I have scarcely thought of anything except what you told me the other night." "Then it's time you did.

That's one reason why I wanted you to come here.

You've been thinking too much about yourself." "It isn't of myself, but of Mother.