I thought of how those doctors had spent the night in practising on us their dreadful arts, of their bills, and----that was all.
[WILLYUM.]
I had been seated in the next chair to hers for at least two minutes. I felt that it was time to introduce myself.
"It's a fine evening."
She turned, she looked me up and down, then she looked straight in front of her again.
"I don't know you."
But I was not to be crushed; there was something about the shape of her that which suggested sociability.
"That is my misfortune, rather than my fault."
"I don't know nothing at all about that. I do not speak to strangers as a rule. Sometimes there's never no knowing who they are."
I felt that I was getting on--so I went on.