"Oh, well, I shall wait till you say something," remarked Willie, with a laugh. "I can't deny villainies wholesale, and I can't argue against Gallic ejaculations."
"You still come here?" she asked, ignoring his rudeness, and coming to close quarters with native audacity.
He looked at her for a moment, and then walked up to her chair, and stood over her. She leant back, gazing up at him with a smile.
"Look here! Don't talk nonsense," he said brusquely; "even such talk as yours may do harm with fools."
"Fools!" she echoed. "You mean——?"
"More than half the world," he interrupted.
"Including——?" she began again in mockery.
"Some of our acquaintance," he answered, with the glimmer of a smile.
"Ah, I thought you were angry!" she cried, pointing at the smile on his lips.
"I shall be, if you don't hold your tongue."