"I'd rather die."
"You'd save a lot of money and trouble if you did."
"Just look at the list of presents I must give."
She handed him a bundle of papers. He pushed up his spectacles and put on his reading glasses, and instantly snorted:
"Say! What is this? the town directory?"
He had not read far down the list when he missed one important name.
"You've overlooked Mrs. Alsop."
"Oh, her! I've quarreled with her. We don't speak, thank heaven."
"It would be money In your pocket, if you didn't speak to anybody. Gosh!" he slapped his knee. "I have an idea. Stop speaking to everybody."
"Don't he silly."
"I mean it."