“I wish it would be so with me. I know you mean me. But I don’t feel my green leaves coming.”
“Facts are not always indicated by feelings.”
“Indeed, I hope not; nor yet feelings indicated by facts.”
“I do not quite understand you.”
“Well, Mr Walton, I will explain myself. I have come to tell you how sorry and ashamed I am that I behaved so badly to you every time you came to see me.”
“Oh, nonsense!” I said. “It was your illness, not you.”
“At least, my dear sir, the facts of my behaviour did not really represent my feelings towards you.”
“I know that as well as you do. Don’t say another word about it. You had the best excuse for being cross; I should have had none for being offended.”
“It was only the outside of me.”
“Yes, yes; I acknowledge it heartily.”