What promise? I hardly ever make one—and never make one that it is any trouble to keep. Tell me about this one (for I have forgotten it utterly) & if it isn’t any trouble to keep it, I’ll keep it, as sure as you live—otherwise I’ll add it, without a twinge of conscience, to the million of the ◊◊ same kind that went before it.

These be damnable morals, I grant it, but they are the only kind for a man with a bad memory who is called upon every week to fulfill some long forgotten old promise long since debarred by the statute of limitations.

Erzähle!