“Maybe they could,” said Gunnar; “but I’m not coming.”
It was just this insolence that she liked in Gunnar. It was a challenge to her.
“I want to talk to you, Gunnar,” she told him.
“There’s a rush order to get out,” replied Gunnar, “and I can’t leave early.”
At any cost she had to humble him—at any cost!
“Gunnar,” she said, “after all, if it wasn’t for me—”
“Some day I’ll pay you what I owe you,” he interrupted.
They looked steadily at each other.
“You’re a fool!” she said. “If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t be here at all.”
Gunnar laughed.