"Ghost stories, of course."

"And why ghost stories?"

"Well, I'm blessed, when you know just as much as I do they're the only genuine hair-raising stuff."

On my way to the elevated I sometimes stop in to leave an order at our grocer's.

Just this morning I found him taking an order from a new customer, who, I judged, had not been married very long.

Of course I couldn't help hearing some fragments of their delightful conversation.

I have a higher opinion of that grocer now.

He must have served his time as a court interpreter.

"You might send me a pound of paralysed sugar," she said.