H. What a basis to judge a book upon! As first you said you knew him, and now you don't know whether you did or not.
C. Oh yes, I know him; anyway, I think I thought I did; I'm perfectly certain of it.
H. What makes you think you thought you knew him?
C. Why, she says I did, herself.
H. She says so!
C. Yes, she does, and I did know him, too, though I don't remember it now.
H. Come—how can you know it when you don't remember it.
C. I don't know. That is, I don't know the process, but I do know lots of things that I don't remember, and remember lots of things that I don't know. It's so with every educated person.
H. (After a pause). Is your time valuable?
C. No—well, not very.