“I couldn’t.”

“Whether he or she should pay for some caramels. So you see there are bridal quarrels, and they are confessed.”

“It is a pity.”

“The quarrels or the telling?”

“Both. But I suppose people who are low enough to quarrel would be low enough to tell.”

“It doesn’t seem likely that I shall quarrel with Bert. You see we are such good friends.”

“That should make a difference. Perhaps that isn’t a common situation. To be sure, you American girls are credited with inventing that idea—the idea of marrying a friend.”

“Whom should we marry—our enemies? We are told to love them, but not to marry them.”