“Oh, don’t talk of it. That’s why I ran off here—so I couldn’t hear anything about it until he went away.”

“Why didn’t you tell me you were coming?”

“I didn’t think you were so stupid.”

“How was I to know where you were coming?”

But now she was reminded of something.

“Tell me one thing—did you ever know a little short fat girl, a blonde that you liked very much?”

“Never!”

“Then what did you talk so much about her for yesterday if you didn’t? You’d speak of her every time.”

“I didn’t think you were so stupid.”

“Well, I can’t see—”