She smiled at the startled look on his face.
"Why, yes," she replied "You see I've been hunting so hard for you, Joe, among those friends you used to have.

And I did it without ever letting you know.

Dwight, too--he was only one of them." She frowned, and added briskly, "Just incidental, so to speak.

But I don't care to talk of him now--I'm speaking only of Amy.

And from what Sally Crothers has told me, poor Amy must have had some hard times.