"Wasn't that rather close?" asked Lawrence.
"Why? There was lots of room. Are you nervous?"
"I suppose I am, since you say so."
"I didn't say so. I asked."
"And I answered," said Lawrence, tartly.
"How sensitive you are! You act as though I had called you a coward."
"I thought you meant to. It sounded rather like it."
"You have no right to think that I mean things which I haven't said," answered the young girl.
"Oh, very well. I apologize for thinking that what you said meant anything."
"Don't lose your temper—don't be a spoilt baby!"