"But it seems so absurd to ask for a common pin!"
"It may, but I would greatly like to have it. You see, it was an unusual gift. You didn't care for it, in fact, I have heard you indignantly spurned it."
"I did."
"They say, you expected a diamond pin, and your aunt left you a dime and pin! Is that so?"
"That is so."
"Pardon my smiling, but I think it's the funniest thing I ever heard. And I would greatly like to have that pin and that dime."
"I'm sorry to say it's impossible, as I flung them away, and I've no idea where they landed."
"If you had them would you sell them to me?"
"I'd give them to you, if I had them! Why, it was merely an ordinary dime, not an old or rare coin. And the pin was a common one."
"Yes, I know that, but the idea, you see, the strange bequest—oh, I greatly desire to have one or the other of those two things! Can't we find them? Where did you throw them?"