"You're a fine movie villain, Jerry. You look as if you would pass me the poisoned bean."
Silence.
"Jerry, if you don't like any of my behaviours, why were you nice to me?"
"Because I thought you were a lonely little girl with no one to play with."
"I am that now, Jerry."
"Whose fault is that?"
"Yours."
He laughed shortly.
"You could play with me, very nicely, with no interruptions from the Wax Doll, if you'd only thaw. Couldn't you thaw a tiny bit, Jerry?"
He rose and departed to the smoking-room. When an hour had passed and he did not come back, she marched down the car and into the smoking compartment.