If you are long away you find the table cleared.' 'Charming arrangement! No sitting down behind the counter, I suppose ?' 'Oh, of course not.

We stiffer a great deal from that.

Some of us get diseases.

A girl has just gone to the hospital with varicose veins, and two or three others have the same thing in a less troublesome form.
Sometimes, on Saturday night, I lose all feeling in my feet; I have to stamp on the floor to be sure it's still under me.' 'Ah, that Saturday night!' 'Yes, it's bad enough now; but at Christmas! There was a week or more of Saturday night--going on to one o'clock in the morning.

A girl by me was twice carried out fainting, one night after another.