"Oh, come off! Don't use that stage-father tone. I hoped you would be glad to see your little Cricket, Jerry."
"Well, I'm not."
"You may as well cheer up, because, glad or mad, you've got to see me."
"What on earth made you do such a crazy thing?"
"I couldn't stand it to be left alone with that dull bunch. I told you I'd come north with you, and I always do what I say I will."
"It must be comfortable to be so unhampered by consideration of others!"
"What others?"
"Your parents."
"Oh—them!"
"And me."