"Thanks," he said again.
"May is a splendid girl," said George. "You will be very happy. I speak as one who knows her. How sympathetic you always were in the old days, May."
"Was I?"
"You certainly were. Don't you remember how I used to bring my troubles to you, and we would sit together on the sofa in front of your parlour fire?"
"We were always afraid some one was listening at the door."
"If they had been, the only thing they'd have found out would have been the lamp."
"Hey!" said Hamilton Beamish abruptly.
"Those were happy days," said Madame Eulalie.
"And do you remember how your little brother used to call me April Showers?"
"He did, did he?" said Mr. Beamish, snorting a little. "Why?"