"I don't mind calling you John.

I like it.

How fortunate," she went on lazily, "that we really did get to know one another well in those days at Etaples.

It saves one from all those twinges one feels about sudden friendships, for you know, after all, in a way, nothing at Etaples counted.

You were just the most charming of my patients, and the most interesting, but still a patient.