“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.”