Long, impressive pause.
“Well, Jack, what did she do?” asked Bogan.
“She didn’t do nothing.”
“Well, Jack, and what did she say?”
Jack sighed and straightened himself up: “She said—she said—‘Well, so you’ve come back.’”
“Painful silence.
“Well, Jack, and what did you say?”
“I said yes.”
“Well, and so you had!” said Tom Moonlight.
“It wasn’t that, Tom,” said Jack sadly and wearily—“It was the way she said it!”