"No, but he invited me into a saloon to take a glass of lager."
Here she laughed again.
"Evidently the Professor is not a ladies' man. Did you accept the beer?"
"As if I would!"
"Poor man! you deprived him of a pleasure."
"No, I did not. He left me on the sidewalk while he went in and took his beer."
"I hope you won't go to the theatre with him again," said Stephen, in a tone of dissatisfaction.
"You can rest quite easy, Stephen, I won't."
"What made him ask you to go?"