“She isn’t your friend.”
“Why, of course she’s my friend—”
“You hardly know her!”
“You don’t have to know people such an awful lot to be friends with them,—not if they’re nice people.”
“Huh! I s’pose I’m not nice people, then. You’re not very friendly with me!”
“Neither are you with me!”
“You know why.”
“So do you know why.”
“I don’t know why, and I don’t care why. If you want old Bernice Forbes for your friend instead of me, you can have her, I don’t care!”
“I don’t want her instead of you—”