“Where did he buy it?” he asked.
“Where did he buy what? where did who buy what?”
“The monkey.”
“Oh! I don’t know, I’m sure.”
Then there was another long silence.
“To-morrow,” he announced, “I am going to the Tagernsee, and—”
“I’m not,” she put in flatly.
He turned his head and stared reprovingly.
“How you have say that! not in the way of good manners at all.”
“No,” she said, with an air of retort, “I am with you so much that I am beginning to forget all my good manners.”