Vivi now ostentatiously disengaged her hand.
"Please."
"Is it safe now?" said Skippy anxiously.
"How perfectly horrid of you," said the young lady in pretended indignation. "You make fun of everything, even the most sacred things."
The relevancy of this was lost on Skippy who condescended to say,
"View isn't half bad if the moon weren't so dreadfully lopsided."
"Unsentimental wretch! I suppose you want to go back?" said Vivi reproachfully.
"Are there mosquitoes?"
"Just for that I'll keep you here until you're eaten up," said Vivi, plucking a spray of honeysuckle and inhaling it with a sigh. "Isn't it wonderful, don't you adore honeysuckle in the moonlight?" she added, transferring it to his inspection.
Skippy inhaled it loudly and announced that it was all right.