"Won't you listen to me?"
"Have I refused to listen? But no, I don't want to listen now. You have made me too angry."
"Oh, but do listen just a little—"
Claudia suddenly changed her tone—indeed, her whole demeanor.
"Not to-day," she said beseechingly; "really, not to-day. I won't tell you why; but not to-day."
"No time like the present," suggested Eugene.
"Do you know there is something you don't allow for in women?"
"So it seems. What is that?"
"Just a little pride. No, I will not listen to you!" she added with an imperious little stamp of her foot, and a relapse into hostility.
"May I come again?"