But your card gave me a little tug at the heart.
It brought back so much.

And still plain Karl Steinmetz--after all.

We used to think much of you in the old days.

Who would have thought that all the honors would have slipped past you ?" Steinmetz shrugged his shoulders with a heart-whole laugh.
"Ah, what matter?
Who cares, so long as my old friends remember me?
Who would have thought, my dear madam, that the map of Europe would have been painted the colors it is to-day?
It was a kaleidoscope--the clatter of many stools, and I fell down between them all.

Still plain Karl Steinmetz--still very much at your service.