sweet.

I had a little old patient today who was talking to her husband on the phone while I was in the room.

When she hung up, I said, conversationally, 'Was that your honey?'

'Oh, yes!' she said, and her eyes twinkled brightly for the first time that afternoon. "And he is a honey. He is the sweetest man, ever."

'How long have you been married?' I asked.

Beaming at the thought of him, she said, 'Well, it's been sixty-one years of honey.'

And I thought, 'Ain't that just the sweetest thing?'