"Great heavens, yes!"
"I'm glad of that," said I, in a self-satisfied way, "for then you won't miss Mrs. West so much."
"Miss Mrs. West? Good Lord, I'd forgotten her!"
"That's very ungrateful and horrid of you, then," I scolded him, "because you and she were friends, and she knows how to be perfectly charming."
"Yes. She knows how."
"She knows just what to do and say."
"Yes. She's an agreeable—and experienced—woman."
"And if it hadn't been for me, she'd be sitting by you now."
"I have little doubt of that."
"And you would have been happy."