• If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She'll feel as good as.

    Beatrice Schenk de Regniers: If your best friend's feeling tearful, 
Try not to be too cheerful. 
Just let her fill your ear full 
Of sad tales by the score. 
And when she is through,
She'll feel as good as.
    "Week in the Life of Best Friends".