I know that as well as you.

Did it ever occur to you to think of her ?" "I shouldn't be here if I hadn't thought of her." "Oh--" Tyson stepped over to the empty fireplace.

It was the only thing in the room that was left intact.
His attitude suggested that he was lord of the hearth, and that his position was indestructible.
"Since you considered your testimony to my wife's character so indispensable, may I ask why you waited five weeks to give it ?" Tyson could play with words like a man of letters; he fought with them like the City tailor's son.
"You post your letters rather late.

I left town an hour after I got hers." "It was the least you could do." "Then I got ill.

That also was the least I could do.