I joked.
"For you particularly?"
"Yes, I've got a cold already."
He coughed.
"Pooh!" I said rather abruptly. "As long as you've nothing worse than that the matter with you."
I suddenly thought of him as a soft flabby creature, this tall fellow brought up by women. I think he guessed my thoughts.
"If only I had not got such a high temperature!" he said.
I shrugged my shoulders.
"High temperature! Who said you'd got a high temperature?"