I arranged this because I knew it was what you would like.

Men can talk these things over best by themselves, and Holham can tell you everything that happened--since you went away.

It will be a dreary story, I'm afraid, but you will want to hear it all.

It was a nightmare time, but now one sees it in a calmer perspective." "I feel in a nightmare still," said Yeovil.
"We all felt like that," said Cicely, rather with the air of an elder person who tells a child that it will understand things better when it grows up; "time is always something of a narcotic you know.

Things seem absolutely unbearable, and then bit by bit we find out that we are bearing them.