"Fifteen minutes or so ago," he answered, looking up from his couch.
"Why did you come?"
"To see you, of course."
"No; I can not believe that. The day is too warm."
"You, at any rate, look cool enough."
"It is cool up here among the rocks; but it must be intense out on the high-road."
"I did not come by the high-road."
"How, then, did you come?"
"Across the fields."
"Why?"