I said:

‘I am glad to see you, Hugo, it is good of you to come up here.’

He said:

‘Why, of course I came.’

He turned to the children, and looked at them with an amused,

half puzzled expression, and then back to me.

‘I can’t get used to the idea of you with children, you know,’

he said; and then he added abruptly: ‘they are neither of them

like you.’

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