“Let them say.”
“Too bad of you though!”
“Oh, go to the devil!”
He flung his cue down in a temper and went towards the front of the house. She followed him.
“I say, Theo ... don’t be angry now. Come along to the band.”
“No.”
“I’ll never say it again,” she entreated, coaxingly.
She was afraid that he would continue to be angry and then she would have nothing and nobody, then she would die of boredom.
“I promised Addie and I can’t go by myself....”
“Well, if you won’t make any more of those idiotic remarks....”