"Don't you sometimes fancy you know me better than most?"
"I've known you since Whitsun."
"You've known me since...."
She stopped abruptly. The Seraph lifted a wet hand, and watched the water trickling in zigzag rivulets up his arm.
"Shall I finish it for you?" he asked.
"You don't know what I was going to say."
"You've known me since the day I was born."
"Why do you think I was going to say that?"
"You were, weren't you?"
"I stopped in the middle."