'So happy now,' he sighed.
'Are you in pain, my darling?'
'Better,' he answered. 'I feel now like the lady in _Hard Times_, as if
there were a pain somewhere in the room, but I'm not perfectly sure that
I've got it!'
'Mrs Gradgrind?' I said.
'How well you know your Dickens, little 'un. I always thought that such
a funny joke. Don't hold me, darling, you must be so tired. Sit down
beside me.'