I laugh because I enjoy it, just the same as I enjoy hunting or going on voyages of discovery." "To have met _you_!" childishly.
"Don't talk like that.

It always makes me less sad than furious.

And how do you know?
If it had been written that you should care for me, would any one else have mattered?
No.

It just is, that's all.

So we'll go on as we have done in the past, good friends.