I want to tell you--' 'Mother, can I have your long buttonhook ?' Here Bruce came in.

Edith rang off.

Archie disappeared.
'It's really rather wonderful, Edith, what that Sandow exerciser has done for me! You laughed at me at first, but I've improved marvellously.' Bruce was walking about doing very mild gymnastics, and occasionally hitting himself on the left arm with the right fist.' Look at my muscle--look at it--and all in such a short time!' 'Wonderful!' said Edith.
'The reason I know what an extraordinary effect these few days have had on me is something I have just done which I couldn't have done before.
Of course I'm naturally a very powerful man, and only need a little--' 'What have you done ?' 'Why--you know that great ridiculous old wooden chest that your awful Aunt Matilda sent you for your birthday--absurd present I call it--mere lumber.' 'Yes ?' 'When it came I could barely push it from one side of the room to the other.

Now I've lifted it from your room to the box-room.

Quite easily.