“You. I was thinking a great deal about you. Now you are going to say I had much better have been talking to you.”
“No. But tell me what you were thinking.”
“I was thinking how deftly you got away from that question of mine—about the one occasion when you did take someone seriously. Now tell us all about it.”
“Ah—I’m not going to tell you.”
“Not, eh?”
“No—no—no! Perhaps some day.”
“Well you’ll have to look sharp, for I’m off in a day or two.”
“No? you’re not!” she cried, in a tone very like that of real consternation. “Ah, you’re just trying to crowd it on. Why, you’re here for quite a long time.”
“Very well. You’ll see. Only, don’t say I never told you.”
“But you mustn’t go. You needn’t. Look here—You’re not to.”