"You are quite right. I never played worse, and I was thinking about something else."
"Something very serious, I reckon."
"Very."
"Is it anything I could help you in?"
"You are very kind, Miss Pilgrim. All day, and most of last night, I have been deliberating on an important step."
"What sort of a step?"
"Whether I ought not to resign my membership of a certain club."
"Is that all?"
"You see, I was one of the founders, and I like it. But sometimes the conditions of membership seem impossible. At any rate, I have felt them so since last evening."