“Well, say in October——”

“October your grandmother! Say April.”

“Oh, nonsense, Bill, I can’t! And this is no thing to decide over a telephone! You come up here——”

“I can’t,—not for a few days, and I’ve got to know this thing now,—see? NOW!”

“Well, say June, then.”

“No! you may say May, but not a day later. Say your birthday, that’s in May.”

“May’s an unlucky month——”

“Not for us,—it won’t be! On your birthday, then——”

“Wait a minute, Bill, what made you return my valentine?”

“What made you return mine?”