Did I?
Life is too awfully short to remember.

But it is true.

It is the present in which I find my pleasure." Up to this time neither Mrs.Lancaster nor Mr.Wickersham had taken any notice of Keith, who stood a little to one side, waiting, with his eyes resting on the other young man's face.

Mrs.Lancaster now turned.
"Oh, Mr.Keith." She now turned back to Mr.Wickersham.

"You know Mr.
Keith ?" Keith was about to step forward to greet his old acquaintance; but Wickersham barely nodded.
"Ah, how do you do?
Yes, I know Mr.Keith .-- If I can take care of the present, I let the past and the future take care of themselves," he continued to Mrs.Lancaster.