Janet. Do you mean to say you thought for a single moment I should go home and leave you like that?

Carve. Yes. But of course I thought you might be coming back sooner or later.

Janet. Well I never!

Carve. You've scarcely left me for three days and three nights, Mrs. Cannot, so far as I remember. Surely it was natural for me to suppose that you'd gone home to your own affairs.

Janet. (Sarcastically.) It didn't occur to you I might have dropped off to sleep?

Carve. Now, don't be angry. I'm only convalescent.

Janet. Will you kindly march right back to bed this instant?

Carve. No, I'm dashed if I do!

Janet. I beg pardon.

Carve. I say, I'm dashed if I do! I won't stir until I've thanked you. I've been ill I don't know how many times; but this is the first time in my life I've ever enjoyed being