I'd like what I say on such an occasion to be more poetical or else more nonsensical than what other people say under the same circumstances.

And now I'll tell you why I always think of you when I come here by moonlight." "But I suppose you don't often come." "Yes, I do; that is to say, I did come very often when we had the full moon in August.

The weather wasn't like this, and I used to run out through the open windows and nobody knew where I was gone.

I made him come once, but he didn't seem to care about it.

I told him that part of the refectory wall was falling; so he looked at that, and had a mason sent the next day.