We save the very best for an extremity.

Simmy delights in talking about me, and I love to talk about him.

It's the simplest kind of small talk and doesn't disturb us in the least if we should happen to be thinking of something else at the time." "Have you heard when Braden Thorpe is expected home, Simmy ?" "Had a letter from him yesterday.

He sails next week.

Is there any tinkering to be done for your family this season, Madge?
Any little old repairs to be made ?" "I'm afraid not," said Mrs.Fenn desolately, "Rumsey positively refuses to imagine he's got a pain anywhere, and the baby's tonsils are disgustingly healthy." "Old Templeton Thorpe's in a critical condition, I hear," put in Rumsey Fenn.