“Kit Kirby was an engineer,”

it began.

“ So handsome and so debonair.”

“Handsome!” I said, feeling interested. Susannah took an observation.

“Some.”

“Then you oughtn't to say 'so' when you mean 'some.'”

She scratched out and wrote:

“Some handsome in respect to him.”

But I was new at literary criticism or I wouldn't have made that mistake. It went on:

“But very crooked in his nose,