"All right!"
"Oh—and nurse...?"
"Yes?"
"Not sentimental and not funny, I like a practical story."
I got him "Lord Jim."...
Another voice: "Nurse, is there any modern French poetry in that bookcase?"
"Good heavens, no! Who would have brought it here?"
(Who are they all ... these men with their differing tastes?)
Perhaps the angels feel like this as they trail about in heaven with their wings flapping on their thin white legs....
"Who were you, angel?"