Monica walked on, but the girl caught her up.
“Don’t be so sharp with me, Miss Madden. I don’t say as you wanted him to go in the bus with you. But you might tell me what he had to say.”
“Nothing at all; except that he wished to know where I was going, which was no business of his. I did what I could for you. I told him that if he asked you to go up the river with him I felt sure you wouldn’t refuse.”
“Oh, you did!” Miss Eade threw up her head. “I don’t think it was a very delicate thing to say.”
“You are very unreasonable. I myself don’t think it was very delicate, but haven’t you worried me to say something of the kind?”
“No, that I’m sure I haven’t! Worried you, indeed!”
“Then please never to speak to me on the subject again. I’m tired of it.”
“And what did he say, when you’d said that?”
“I can’t remember.”
“Oh, you are narsty to-day! Really you are! If it had been the other way about, I’d never have treated you like this, that I wouldn’t.”