She was giving such a splendid pail of milk, full to the brim, just as old Spot and Brindle used to give.

You remember our Spot and Brindle, Fan ?" "Oh yes." There was a falling inflection in Mrs.Bray's voice, as if the reference had sent her thoughts away back to other and more innocent days.
The two women sat silent for some moments after that; and when Pinky spoke, which she did first, it was in lower and softer tones: "I don't like to think much about them old times, Fan; do you?
I might have done better.

But it's no use grizzling about it now.

What's done's done, and can't be helped.

Water doesn't run up hill again after it's once run down.