"Why?"
"Yes, it is. Besides, it's a sort of threat——"
"A threat?"
"Certainly. You threaten to—you know perfectly well what you threaten to do unless I immediately consider the possibility of our—caring for each other—sentimentally."
"But what do you care if you don't care?"
"I—don't. All the same it's horrid and—and unfair. Suppose I was frothy and behaved——"
"Misbehaved?"
"Yes. Just because you wouldn't agree to take a sentimental interest in me?"
"I would agree! I'll agree now!"
"Suppose you wouldn't?"