They weren't over there, you know.

Are they alive ?" "My young friend, are you trying to deceive me?
You have heard from at least one of them, if you haven't seen them ?" "I haven't--not a line.

We don't correspond: not _comme il faut_." "Oh, you haven't written to Claudia ?" "Of course not." "Why not ?" "Why should I ?" "Let us go back to the previous question.

Have you heard from Miss Bernard ?" "Why probe my wounds?
Not a single line." "Confound her impudence! she never wrote ?" "I don't know why she should.

But in case she ought, I'm bound to say she couldn't." "Why not?
She said she would; she said so to me." "She couldn't have said so.