I do not meet friends every day from whom I have been separated so long." "It is a very ordinary thing for me to meet 'friends,'" he replied, _sotto voce_, "for I have many.

I had hopes that I should meet one who would be far more than a friend.

I'm half inclined to go out to Santa Barbara and see if my little sister Madge is not still there." "Do you think me a fraud ?" "Oh, no, only so changed that I scarcely know how to get acquainted with you." "Even if I granted so much, which I do not, I might suggest that one must be uninteresting indeed if she inspires no desire for acquaintance.

But such talk is absurd between us, Graydon." "Of course it is.

You are so changed for the better that I can scarcely believe my eyes or ears, and my heart not at all.