“Oh, indeed! Of course, then, I misunderstood you, and I most humbly beg your pardon, ha-ha-ha! No doubt you said, 'Don't sing it any more to-day.'”
“Sing what any more to-day?”
“The song you mentioned, of course, How very obtuse we are, all of a sudden!”
“I never mentioned any song.”
“Oh, you didn't?”
“No, I didn't!”
“I am compelled to remark that you did.”
“And I am obliged to reiterate that I didn't.”
“A second rudeness! That is sufficient, sir. I will never forgive you. All is over between us.”
Then came a muffled sound of crying. Alonzo hastened to say: