"I hoped I wouldn't have to mention it."
"Why?" she demanded, laughing.
Making a gesture of protest, he exclaimed:
"Won't you please drop the 'Jimmie' and call me 'James'?"
"Why?"
"I'm going to be a millionaire some day," he explained, "and when I am, 'James Gillie' will be bad enough, but 'Jimmie Gillie'—Jimmy Gillie wouldn't sound as though I had a cent."
Virginia nodded. Smilingly she replied: "I see! Well, from this time on it shall be 'James'."
"Thanks."
"And now, having settled that point, I ask you again—what did you really think of the opera?"
"On the level, or to tell to the neighbors?"