"I am much better than when I came.

I'll be coming over to trade pie with you before long.

David says you are my nearest neighbour, so we must be close friends." "Well bless your big heart! Now who ever heard of a pretty young thing like you wantin' to be friends with a plain old country woman ?" "Why I think you are lovely!" cried the Girl.

"And all of us are on the way to age, so we must remember that we will want kindness then more than at any other time.

David says you knew his mother.