"You are full of whims and fancies; but when you like you can be a great support to one.

Do you remember long ago when your father died how only little Kitty's hand could cure mother's headaches ?" "I would cure your heartache now." "You can't, child, you can't.

And besides, who said anything about a heartache?
We have no time, Kate, to talk any more sentimentalities.

I have had a letter, my dear, and it obliges me to go to town to-night." "To-night?
Surely there is no train ?" "There is.

One stops at Northbury to take up the mails at a quarter to twelve.