“How impertinent!”
“You know I don’t mean it that way–––”
“I’m not sure. However, I’ll be kind enough to tell you what I’m doing. I’m sitting here at my desk, listening to an irritable young man–––”
“That’s wonderful luck!” he exclaimed joyously.
“Wonderful luck for a girl to sit at a desk and listen to an irritable young man?”
“If you’ll stop talking bally nonsense for a moment–––”
“If you bully me, I shall stop talking altogether!”
“For heaven’s sake–––”
“I hear you, kind sir; you need not shout!”