I played the opening bars of "Thank God for a Garden."

I felt like a worn-out mosquito.

"I'm afraid you're tired, Pam," he said when I had finished. "You look awfully tired."

"I think I'll go to bed," I said. "My head is rather rotten."

"I'll ask nurse to bring you an aspirin."

"No thanks—it's just sleep I want. I shall be all right to-morrow."

"I'm sorry your head is bad."

"I often get headaches."

He held open the door for me.

I wondered if he were going to refer to the five hundred pounds.