"It iss you! it iss really you! I knew that you wass dead, and, yet when you walked into the room, I knew that it wass you alive! Your face iss changed! your look iss changed! your manner iss changed! you are older, but I would have known you anywhere and at the first glance! You do not understand how much you took out of my life when you went, and you do not know how much you have brought back when you come again! I do not ask why you left or where you have been, you can tell it all when you are ready! It iss enough that you are here!" Tears rose in Robert's eyes and he was not ashamed of them.

He knew that his welcome would be warm, but it had been even warmer than he had expected.
"I did not go away of my own accord, sir," he said.

"I could not have been so heartless as that.

I've a wonderful tale to tell, and, as soon as you give me all the news about my friends, I'll tell it." "Take your time, Robert, take your time.

Maybe you are hungry.