'No.

I really cannot.

You must excuse me, John.

I have a great esteem and friendship for you; I love you very much; and have been perfectly charmed and overjoyed to-day, to find you just the same as ever; but I cannot listen to this.' 'Why, it's my old way, Tom; and you say yourself that you are glad to find me unchanged.' 'Not in this respect,' said Tom Pinch.

'You must excuse me, John.