"Is that open window too cool for you?"
Silence.
"Here's another out of your very recent edition," he began, when she desperately turned to him.
"I wish you'd play fair!"
"Have you played fair?" he asked.
"I might have expected an evasion from you!"
"Don't muddy the water, please. Let's whittle on one stick at a time. Have you played fair?"
"Of course, I have!"
"That's all I want to know."
But this reply suggested a subtle accusation which she did not like, and she asked: