“Not the bench?”

“No.”

Dolly looked at me, then she asked in an insinuating tone—

“When did you forget it, Mr. Carter?”

“The day you were buried,” I rejoined.

“I see. Well, you said then what you couldn’t possibly have meant.”

“I dare say. I often did.”

“That they were—”

“That what were?”

“Why, the—the—what we’re talking about.”