“What is?”
“I don’t know. Doesn’t matter.”
“I said nothing at all.”
“That’s true—that’s just it.”
“What did I say? I said it was quite nice.”
“Yes. You did. But don’t let’s talk any more about it.”
“And you replied that I was hopeless. You must have had some reason for saying that?”
“No, none at all.”
“It would have been different if I had said it wasn’t nice, but I said the right thing and you were rude.”
Wynne did not reply, but he breathed despairfully.