"Somebody? Who?"

"Patricia."

"Before you met her?"

"Yes."

She brooded a moment on this. The passers-by jostled their standing figures impatiently.

"I read a novel of yours; in 1914, wasn't it? But hers——"

"She gave it up for mine."

"Oh.... Yes, she would. I daresay hers was a good deal better."

He repeated: "A good deal better."

"Where is your wife now?"