"Well, I should."
"I wonder." Amy moved about, collecting the plates. "You see ... some day I shall marry. And in a weak moment I said probably I'd marry him."
"Oh, Amy! Of course he's jealous!" Swiftly, Patricia did the young man justice.
"It didn't give him any right to be. I told him I'd changed my mind. I've told him lots of times that probably I shan't marry him."
"But you keep him. Amy! You do encourage him." Patricia was stricken afresh with a generous impulse of emotion on Jack's behalf. "I mean, by not telling him straight out. Surely you can't keep a man waiting like that? I wonder he doesn't insist."
"Jack insist!" Amy was again scornful. "Not he!"
There was a moment's pause. Innocently, Patricia ventured upon a charitable interpretation.
"He must love you very much. But Amy, if you don't love him."
"What's love got to do with marriage?" asked Amy, with a sourly cynical air.