It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

“Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman s…”

“My Dear Mrs Winter. (I had half a mind when I dipped my pen in the ink, to addr…”

“He would make a lovely corpse.”

“Bless me, yes. There he is. He was very much attached to me, was Dick. Poor Dic…”