She interrupted him briskly.
"Lucas! Don't you remember we agreed that whichever of us said 'marry' first should be fined?"
"I never agreed."
"Then I shall break off the engagement."
Yet she continued walking quickly by his side till they came to the studio. He took out his key, but she stopped short on the pavement with a fine air of decision.
"I won't come in unless you promise to be more or less rational," she said.
And then with the same air of decision she entered.
After a few minutes' apparently unnecessary delay he lit the gas and she settled herself in the deck-chair while he filled the teapot.
"Nursing is too heavy work for you," he said suddenly.
"Don't be absurd," she smiled.