“Well, if you won’t do the first thing I have ever asked you, I suppose I’d better go.”
Women, not excepting the very best, are often most unfair, and sometimes even mean. Why change in a breath from chaff to deadly earnest, and wring a man’s heart out with half a look and a catch in the voice? Nairn succumbed.
“No, don’t go. I’ll say it.”
“Well?”
“But I’ve forgotten the words.”
“No; you can’t have forgotten so quickly. Say, ‘I’m very glad indeed that you went out.’”
“I’m very glad indeed that—”
“Go on!”
“That—that you’ve come back.”
“I can see that you want to drive me away.”