"What have I said or done to start you off like this?--just as I was beginning on a fresh round of toast!"
"How dare you say you were tired of being engaged to me!"
"So I am."
"Joe--Joe Lamb!"
"It's gospel truth. I want you for my wife; that's what I want."
The lady's face perceptibly brightened. The tone of her voice was altered also.
"Joe! What extraordinary ways you have of expressing yourself. Will you kindly explain exactly what it is you mean?"
"I've been engaged to you more than two years, and you're no nearer being my wife than you were at the beginning. If anything, you're further off. And I'm sick and tired of waiting; that's what I mean."
"If you'd only said so at first."
"I did; didn't I?"