"Do you?" inquired Valerie. "Have you discovered anything horrid in my character?"
"I haven't finished looking for the character yet," said Sam with an impudent grin. "When I find it I'll investigate it."
"Sam! Come here!"
He came carefully, wincing when she took him by the generous lobes of both ears.
"Now what did you say?"
"Help!" he murmured, contritely; "will no kind wayfarer aid me?"
"Answer me!"
"I only said you were beautifully decorative but intellectually impulsive—"
"No, answer me, Sam!"
"Ouch! I said you had a pair of baby eyes and an obstinate mouth and an immature mind that came to, conclusions before facts were properly assimilated. In other words I intimated that you were afflicted with incurable femininity and extreme youth," he added with satisfaction, "and if you tweak my ears again I'll kiss you!"