“Well,” he said, “you lazy thing, why don’t you go to bed?”

“I waited for you,” she said.

“What the deuce did you want to wait for me? You know I come when I get ready,” he said, dropping into a chair.

“Yes, I know you do, and I have no idea of wearing my life out watching for you, night after night.”

“Why don’t you go out yourself, then?”

“I don’t feel like it.”

“But you see I do, so there is the difference between you and me.”

“I am ill and I can’t go out and enjoy myself as you do.”

“So am I,” he said, with a sneering laugh.

“At any rate you seem to enjoy yourself, or you would not stay so long.”