“I mean—that.”
“I decline to be snubbed. I'm shameless, and I wish to be informed. Please tell me.”
“I'd rather not tell you.”
“Very well.... Good-bye.... But don't ring off just yet, Stephen.... Do you think that, sometime, you would care to see—any people—I mean when you begin to go out again?”
“Who, for example?”
“Why, anybody?”
“No; I don't think I should care to.”
“I wish you would care to. It is not well to let go every tie, drop everybody so completely. No man can do that to advantage. It would be so much better for you to go about a bit—see and be seen, you know; just to meet a few people informally; go to see some pretty girl you know well enough to—to—”
“To what? Make love to?”
“That would he very good for you,” she said.