I had not very much to say. It was a record of hard work and of little adventure; of experiments in this direction and in that; of the gradual acquisition of the knowledge of books and of men.
Send each other an email with a simple breakdown of your finances and then a few days later come together in a non-judgmental frame of mind to discuss the human story behind those numbers.
Handsome as their presence was to look at, I imagined their minds to be full of intelligence, but who would have thought that they would, after all, be a couple of stupid worms, without the least notion of human affection!