“You deserve I should box your ears!”
“No, pray do not!” she said earnestly. “Isabella will not speak of the matter: she said she should not! But, Sherry, I fear she believes that he has been flirting with me! Would you be so very obliging as to tell her that it was no such thing?”
“No, by Jove, I will not!” he declared. “Upon my word, what next will you ask me to do?”
“But if she knew that you do not mind George’s having kissed me — ”
“But I do mind!” said Sherry, incensed.
“Do you, Sherry?” she asked wistfully.
“Well, of course I do! A pretty sort of a fellow I should be if I did not!”
“I won’t do it again,” she promised.
“You had better not, by Jupiter! And while I think of it, brat, you are not to visit men’s lodgings again either!”
“I do know that, Sherry, but it was so very awkward, on account of George’s not liking to come to this house, that I did not see what else I could do.”