\" \"Okay. I have counted you, and always hoped to count you, the best of my friends. "You have said," pursued the widow, "that she, who has once erred, is irreclaimable. ’ ‘It cannot be helped now. I too can see it. Vite, I pray you. I have squeezed three kids into it afore now. You’re the only person I’ve really given good, straight, unselfish thought to.