“Why not?”
“I have done you the greatest service one human being can render another! I have saved you from being bored!”
She nodded.
“That may be true,” she admitted. “But can you conceive no worse state in the world than being bored?”
“There is no worse state,” he answered drily. “I was bored once,” he added, “for ten years or so; I ought to know!”
“Were you married?” she asked.
He shook his head.
“Not quite so bad as that,” he answered. “I was in prison!”
She turned a startled face towards him.
“Nonsense!”