‘Look here, Miss Propert,’ he said. ‘There’s enough of this.’
She laughed straight out.
‘Oh, I am so glad you said that,’ she said. ‘I was going to let you turn the door-handle before I spoke.’
He put down his hat again.
‘Oh, you were, were you?’ he said. ‘Well, what were you going to say when I did turn the door-handle?’
‘I think you are rather brutal,’ she said. ‘You don’t help me out at all.’
‘Not an atom,’ he said.
‘You know quite well. First I was going to apologise for all the thoughts that had ever been in my mind about you and the hospital. I was an utter fool not to have known that you were the most generous——’
He interrupted her.
‘Never mind that.’