said, swallowing a chunk of trout, “I wish to congratulate you. I wish to thank you. You go from strength to strength. I have read All for Love ; I have read Only a Factory Girl ; I know Madcap Myrtle by heart. But this—this is your bravest and best. It tears the heartstrings.”
“Yes?”
“Indeed yes! I have read it three times since you most kindly sent me the volume—I wish to thank you once more for the charming inscription—and I think I may say that I am a better, sweeter, deeper man. I am full of human charity and kindliness toward my species.”
“No, really?”
“Indeed, indeed I am.”
“Towards the