"Don't be angry."
Then hesitated; conscious, now he had spoken, that the admonition—by presupposing cause for it—was not likely to improve matters. Felt that he had put a large-sized foot into it.
"Angry!"
The glitter in her eyes, as she repeated his word, warned him that his intuition was correct; made him say:
"Well—annoyed."
"You are so—so provoking!"
"I am sorry——"
"No, you are not! You are not sorry a little bit!"
"Believe me——"
"If you were sorry for your rudeness——"