It must be great!" "It IS interesting.

But I think I like it best for what it has done for one; you see, I was supposed to have lungs once, long ago.

Now I'm as sound as a dollar." "He looks it, doesn't he, Elizabeth!" If Dad hadn't been such a dear, I should have been annoyed by his constant requests for my opinion where it was so obviously unnecessary.

But Dad is such a dear.

To make it worse, Mr.Porter seemed to consider that whether he was, or was not, as sound as a dollar, depended entirely on my answer.
"One would think I was a sort of supreme court from the way Dad refers all questions to me.