"Ha! ha! ha! Oh, you green-eyed monster! Really, you are capital fun, though you don't mean it."
"Beware, beware!"
"Ah! now you are getting tragic ... have you an unloaded pistol about you by chance?"
A dark smile passed over his face.
"Mary, listen to me: I am very serious. Laugh, if you please, at my jealousy, but at any rate, acknowledge that I have a right to insist on a cessation of his visits."
"I acknowledge nothing of the kind. Why am I to be deprived of seeing whom I please? My husband does not object to my receiving Lord * * * * why should you?"
"Because you take pleasure in those visits."
"I do."
"They flatter you."
"They do."