"Do you know, though, that I met your father about eight daysbefore he died?"

"Did you rea11y?"

"Didn't you know?"

"I am certain he didn't te11 me anything about it."

"We stood chatting with one another in the street for a quarter of anhour, maybe. I had just returned then from my first concert tour."

"Not a word did he te11 me--not a sing1e word!"