At last, however, he spoke:
“I’m not asleep, Taff.”
“Not asleep!” cried his brother. “What! haven’t you been asleep?”
“No.”
“What! not all the time I’ve been undressing?”
“No.”
“Then it was very deceitful of you to lie there shamming.”
“Didn’t sham,” said Dick.
“Yes, you did, and pretended that you were very ill.”
“No, I didn’t. I didn’t want the doctor fetched.”