"You mean I'm to have it?"
"All right."
"Thank you very much, dear," said Marie very slowly after a while.
"You don't seem in a particular hurry to say it."
"Why should I say it?"
"What! when I've just arranged to give you six pound ten—"
"To feed your daughter."
"Oh, well—"
"Anyway, I have said it. I've said 'Thank you very much,' haven't I? Do you want me to show more gratitude?"
"It beats me to think what's come over women."