“I lied,” he said, bitterly. “Where were you?”

“Jus’ over cross street, see my ole friend ad tea-garden.”

“I thought you said you were visiting your people?”

She was not at all abashed.

“Sa-ay, firs’ you saying you miss me; then thad you lie. Sa-ay, you big lie, I jus’ liddle bit lie.”

“Yuki, listen to me. If you leave me like this again, you need never come back. Do you understand?”

“Never?”

“I mean that.”

“Whad you goin’ do? Git you nudder wife?”

He pushed her from him in savage disgust. She laughed with infinite relish.