'Indeed! Well, then, Miss Trim.'
She laughed saucily. How funny it sounds as you say it! Miss Trim! I think we are quite intimate enough for you to call me Jessie.'
'You think!' retorted uncle Bryan, with some sense of enjoyment.
'You are given to thinking, I have no doubt.'
'Oh, yes; I think a good deal.'
'Upon my word What about?'
'All sorts of things that wouldn't interest you.'
I quite believe you, young lady.'
'Oh, if you like to call me that,' she said, with a shrug of her shoulders, you can. 'But I think it's a pity when people try to make themselves more disagreeable than they naturally are.'
For the life of him, uncle Bryan could not help laughing. This little play of words was to him what the world is always looking out for nowadays--a new sensation.