Dick: You look well. That ought to help some.
Tom: I just returned from taking a water cure.
Dick: Did you derive any benefit from the water?
Tom: I don’t know. You see the water was in a well, and I think the exercise I got going to the well helped me.
Dick: Why, was the well a long way off?
Tom: Yes; you see I was far from well.
Dick: O, behave! In the first act—
Tom: Is your play funny?
Dick: Yes; every hearty laugh adds a day to a person’s life, you know.
Tom: I don’t believe it.