“What you told John.”
“No.”
“I’ll have to think about it.”
“Laws, yes, please do. I’d feel mightily cut up if you didn’t.”
“Neal, why will you always make me laugh?”
“I don’t always; sometimes I make you cry.”
Alison chose to ignore this. “You’ll have to go on that search for Steve.”
“I said I would.”
“We will keep it a secret. I think that will be fine. And when you come back with Steve——”
“That is where I shall take all the tricks. But suppose I don’t come back with him, what then?”