But Hermann is always talking of him as Michael." "And Michael always seems--" "Oh, yes; he always seems to me to have been part of us, of Hermann and me, for years.

He's THERE, if you know what I mean, and so few people are there.

They walk about your life, and go in and out, so to speak, but Michael stops.

I suppose it's because he is so natural." Aunt Barbara had been a diplomatist long before her husband, and fearful of appearing inquisitive about Sylvia's impression of Michael, which she really wanted to inquire into, instantly changed the subject.
"Ah, everybody who has got definite things to do is natural," she said.
"It is only the idle people who have leisure to look at themselves in the glass and pose.

And I feel sure that you have definite things to do and plenty of them, my dear.