“I can take a taxi and––”
“No wonder your salary isn’t enough if you do such things!” she interrupted. “If you had ten thousand a year, you would probably manage to spend it all.”
“I haven’t a doubt of it,” he answered cheerfully. “On the other hand, it would get me out of such predicaments as these.”
Apparently he was content to stand here in front of the little shop the rest of the afternoon, debating this and similar points. It was necessary for her to take matters into her own hands.
“The sensible thing for you to do is to go home and have lunch,” she decided.
“And then?”
“Oh, I can’t plan your whole day for you. But you ought to get out in the sunshine.”
“Then I’ll meet you in the park at three?”
“I didn’t say that.”