I love them.

I love every scar in their old grey faces.
They have been good friends to me.

But for them some days might have been hard to live through, but they were always there like friends, watching, understanding.

They kept me steady." "You must have had some difficult days, old girl, in this awful land.
Yes, yes, I know it's glorious, especially on a day like this and in a light like this; but after all, you are away from the world, away from everybody, and shut off from everything, from life, art--how could you stick it ?" "Jack are you sympathising with me?
Let me tell you your sympathy is wasted.

I have had lonely days in this land, of course.