"No, you don't, Jingle Bells!"
He placed a hand that trembled slightly on the sleeved part of her arm.
She opened wider her very wide black eyes.
"Are you bats?" she said.
"I'm going to marry you and take you home with me, if I have to carry you off like a partridge."
"Cleone, I tell you the man means it!"
"You're right, Blondey. I never meant anything more in my life."
A sudden shortness of manner crept over Mr. Kahn.
"Man, you're drunk!" he cried, springing to his feet.
"See my glass!"
"Then you're crazy!"