"I hope you didn't do the sentimental again."
"Sentimental? Good Lord! hadn't I been overwhelmed and choked with
sentiment all day long? Sentiment? Of all the bosh—but, never mind.
Louie at least didn't bother me in that way. Yes, it's a fact,
Macrorie, she's got an awful knack of giving comfort to a fellow."
"Comfort?"
"Well, I can't exactly explain it."
"I suppose she was very sad, and sympathetic, and all that. At any rate, she didn't know the real trouble that you'd been having?"
"Didn't she, though?"
"No, of course not; how could she?"
"Why, she began questioning me, you know."
"Questioning you?"
"Yes—about—the three oranges, you know."