‘You are not very polite,’ Alice returned. ‘Perhaps you’ll take a chair.’
‘I haven’t much time, so please don’t waste what I can afford.’
‘Are you so busy? Have you found something to do?’
‘I’m likely to have enough to do with people who keep what doesn’t belong to them.’
‘It isn’t my doing, Dick,’ she said more seriously.
‘I don’t suppose it is.’
‘Then you oughtn’t to be angry with me.’
‘I’m not angry. What do you want?’
‘I went to see mother yesterday. I think she wants you to go; it looked like it.’
‘I’ll go some day.’