The miserable man raised his shamefaced head and looked haggardly at her.
"Alice!" he muttered, "don't you remember me?"
She gazed at him earnestly.
"Robert! But how changed!"
"Since we parted, Alice, much has happened."
"Yet it seems only yesterday that I saw you!"
(Editor. It WAS only yesterday.
Author. Yes, yes. Don't interrupt now, please.)
"To me it has seemed years."
"But what are you doing here?" said Alice.