'I do not know why I should give you that trouble.'
A moment's silence, spent by both in reflections. This is the outcome of his.
'I do not think that I have done anything fresh.'
'Anything fresh?'
'Not since we parted; nothing to earn me a new set of snubs.'
She smiles a little. 'You have not had much time.'
'And I will not do anything fresh.' Then aside, 'I am blessed if I know what I did.'
'That is rather a rash engagement,' smiling again.
It is fortunate that her teeth are so good, for she shows a great many of them.
'But if I keep it I may come?' pertinaciously.