“What?”
“He told me why he never spoke to strangers.”
“What a slap in the face! You poor——”
“Oh, he didn’t say it like that, you silly idiot. And it was quite a good reason.”
“What was it?”
No answer.
“Tell me exactly what he said.”
“He said, ‘I—I—I——’ At any rate, I’m satisfied, and I rather wish we hadn’t called him pigs and beasts, and things like that.”
“Well?”