"Yep."
"Please."
"Please what?"
"Yep, please," she said with a gay smile.
"Oh!" he growled.
Still smiling, she cut several slices of bread and buttered them. Going to the shelf, she found the teapot and shook some tea into it from one of the cans, measuring it carefully with her eye. His momentary ill humor, caused by her correcting him, vanished as he watched her.
"I guess it's about time you took your hat and coat off," he said with a chuckle.
As a matter of fact, she was not conscious that they were still on. Without a word, she took them off and, having given her coat a little shake and a pat, looked about her for a place to put them. She ended finally by putting them both on the kitchen chair.
"You ain't terribly talkative for a woman, are you, my girl?"
"I haven't anything to say for the moment," said Nora.