“I have been to your friend’s to get your plate that you left there.”
“Ah, indeed! everything is still mine,” I said. The following year I
repeated the question under similar circumstances.
“I have been to bring back our plate.”
“Well, well, part of the things are still mine,” I said. But after
that, when I questioned her, she spoke very differently.
“You wish to know everything, like great people, and you have only
three shirts. I went to get my plate from my friend’s house, where I
had stopped.”
“I see,” I said, “nothing is left me.”