“I did. It makes her mad. You tell her, Wally.”
“She gets mad at me, too.”
“If you get mad back and yell at her, she stops. That’s what I do,” she advised him.
“Look here, it would be a lot more comfortable for you to put up with some woman, even if you don’t like her. You always have to get used to a new one.”
“I don’t. They have to get used to me,” the imp replied. “Where you going?” she added.
“I’m going to exercise Nero.”
“Take me.”
“Can’t look after you and that horse, too.”
“I’m not a baby,” she scorned him. “Tell them to bring the pony round, Wally.”
Later when she threw her breeched leg over her horse, and waited for Wally to mount, he exclaimed: