"Surely."
"Well, perhaps they are, yes; I suppose they are. But—I don't like seeing them. They always remind me of something—rather an awful thing—that once happened to me."
IT was a very awful thing indeed.
[Transcriber's Note: I have closed contractions in the text, e.g., "does n't" has become "doesn't" etc.; in addition, on page 18, paragraph 3, line 5, I have changed "Dyott" to "Dyatt".]