“He kissed it—not I. Another moment, if you hadn’t come in, and I’d have clouted his ears for him.”
“What made him kiss you?”
“That’s for him to say. You can ask him if you like.”
“I!”
“Old acquaintance’ sake, he’ll tell you, perhaps.”
“Ah!”
“What are you ‘ahing’ about? Did it look like a habit between us? Take my word, if you care, that he’s never kissed me in his life before.”
“Care? Not I.”
“I thought you looked as if you didn’t.”
“His kisses and his fancies are subjects of supreme indifference to me.”