Are you upset, little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry. I'm here. I'm here to give you reassurance. Everything is all right. The famine will end...the sun will shine tomorrow...

"Every story is a journey, and every journey changes the storyteller."

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.