“Aren’t I?”

“Oh, well, I never. Don’t you ever think of me? It’s always you, you, you.”

“But of course I think of you much more than you would believe possible. And you come to me in my dreams.”

“John!”

“Yes, dear. It’s true, even if I haven’t told you before.”

“How wonderful!”

“It is, and more than wonderful.”

He laughed, and there was a pause.

“No, it’s not comfortable, your holding both my hands.”

“Here is one back, then.”