" "I can quite, quite believe it.

How I feel that we might have been friends!" she said; and, distressed at what she had said, she looked round at her husband, and tears came into her eyes.

"Yes, _might have been_," he said mournfully.

" He's just one of those people of whom they say they're not for this world.

" "But we have many days before us; we must go to bed," said Kitty, glancing at her tiny watch.