“Invite whom?” I asked.
“You know.”
“Well, I thought it would please you.”
“It doesn’t, then.”
“And I thought, after what we owed to him, that as a gentleman I could do no less.”
“A gentleman, indeed! Much sense he showed of recognising one when you helped him on with his knapsack.”
“Still, you know, Fifine——!”
“No, I don’t know. And now you have just got to answer to me.”
“For what?”
“Please don’t pretend.”