“Ah—h—h!”
“What do you mean by ah—h?”
“What did I promise?”
“That from that day forward you would not only try not to do harm, but to do some good for others as well as for yourself.”
“That is a very big promise.”
“No bigger now than it was then.”
“But it means more now than it did then.”
“Not a bit, not a bit, not a bit!”
“Things look to me so differently now. One grows so much older in a year sometimes.”
“Then you have not kept your promise? O Roger!”