"I don't want to listen to you; you can't have much to say that I care for."
Her tone was still stubborn, but he perceived that it contained a change of humour.
"Come for a little walk, and then, if you don't agree with what I says,
I'll never come after you again."
"You must take me for a fool if you think I'd pay attention to your promises."
"Esther, hear me out; you're very unforgiving, but if you'd hear me out——"
"You can speak; no one's preventing you that I can see."
"I can't say it off like that; it is a long story. I know that I've behaved badly to you, but it wasn't as much my fault as you think; I could explain a good lot of it."
"I don't care about your explanations. If you've only got explanations——"
"There's that boy."
"Oh, it is the boy you're thinking of?"