"Both? It is not necessary that we should do anything of the kind. I wish you would let me do as I like, without criticism. Who appointed you to have authority over me? Who suggested that because I choose to do a thing you should do it too? I prefer not to have you attached to my apron-strings. Give me my skates. You can go home. I would rather you did."
"If you skate, I skate also."
"As you please, if you can get over your timidity. There is room on the lake for two. If you will choose one end I will have the other."
"I shall skate where you do."
"Mr Sanford--you are intolerable!"
"Indeed, I am disposed to act on your courteous suggestion, and go home, and take your skates with me.
"If you do, I will never speak to you again."
"Don't pledge yourself too deeply. You spoke of having put childish things behind you. I did not suspect you of having been such a mistress of irony."
"Will you give me my skates?"
"Certainly. I will put them on for you. Where do you think the ice is--strongest?"