“What was it?” he asked.

“Is your dad in?” Nick asked.

“Which is yours?” he asked Al.

“What’s the idea?” Nick asked.

“I just asked you,” said Hogan.

“Do you feel better?” he asked.

“Have a good walk?” Hogan asked.

“What do you want?” asked the voice.

“Where are we going, Dad?” Nick asked.

“Who says so?” Guy asked, “you or her?”

“What’s the matter, Nick?” Marjorie asked.

“How was it up above?” asked the innkeeper.

“What are you doing that for?” asked the doctor.

“How about a chair, Will?” asked one of the guards.

“But how is the movement going in Italy?” he asked.

“Can you remember when it was a mill?” Marjorie asked.

“Where are you going?” John asked when Jack was dressed.

“Wasn’t I going good, Manos?” he asked, for confirmation.

“How do you get to West Egg village?” he asked helplessly.

“Do ladies always have such a hard time having babies?” Nick asked.

“Oh, Daddy, can’t you give her something to make her stop screaming?” asked Nick.

The boys at first were very polite about my medals and asked me what I had done to get them.

I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.

“Aren’t you going back to work, dear?” asked the doctor’s wife from the room where she was lying with the blinds drawn.

In a village, twenty kilometres above Spezia, there was a crowd in the square, and a young man carrying a suitcase came up to the car and asked us to take him in to Spezia.