"Did you get the watch?"
"I did not."
"Why not?"
"Grandma reneged. She said she didn't remember making any such promise."
They pushed open a swinging door and entered the back room.
Here, in a revolving chair, sat a stout young man with a red face. Upon his knees sat a stout young woman with a red face. And with something of the consistency with which a stamp adheres to an envelope so the one red face appeared glued to the other red face.
The red face of the stout young man had one free eye which detected the presence of intruders. And the stout young man said:
"Caught with the goods! Jump up, Minnie, and behave yourself!"
Minnie's upspring was almost a record-breaker.