Hilda [sticking to the point]. Well you did suggest it, didn't you?

Jamie [jerking his head]. Oh, I suppose so! [He sits with his elbows on his knees, his chin in his hands, and gazes at the rising light.]

Hilda. I'm just as tired as you are.

Jamie [sneeringly]. Yes, I've no doubt!

Hilda [hopelessly]. Oh, Jamie!

Jamie [with a fiendishly sarcastic grin that she doesn't see between her fingers]. And you're catching cold, too.

Hilda [recovering]. Why, I'm not either; what makes you say that?

Jamie [with withering sarcasm]. Oh, aren't you? I thought you were—by the sniffles!

Hilda [with some return of her former spirit]. You're a mean, horrid, old thing, just as mean and horrid as you can be; and I'll never speak to you again as long as I live!

Jamie [significantly]. Oh, I guess you will.