‘Do you mean to say you have not been—oh, how lazy you are!’

‘And how silly, you, my Victoria! but I like you best that way.’

‘What have I to do with it?’

‘So much that, without you, the whole world——’

‘Will you eat a banana?’

‘I do not mind, if you will eat one too.’

‘I have no appetite.’

‘Nor I.’

‘You seemed quite hungry just now.’

‘So I was.’