“It was all raillery, you know. Just making fun.”
“And, in doing so, in order to tease her the more, I did not hesitate to make fun of you.”
“Naturally.”
“In short—you know I want to be entirely frank with you. That is one of my few virtues, frankness, is it not? In short, at the time when we quarreled, I permitted myself to speak slightly of you. Quite so, in fact.”
“Suppose you tell me what you said.”
“I say, Carter, that’s mean, you know, to make me tell what I said.”
“You have already explained why you said the things you did say.”
“I know, but they will sound differently now, repeated in cold blood.”
“Tell me what you said about me to your sister. I want to know all about the quarrel.”