'Please don't try to tell me that you weren't at Hoffmann's with that horrid girl.'

'I'm not trying to. But——'

'You took her there, didn't you?'

'Yes, but she——'

'She didn't make you. You knew her pretty well. While you were going with me, too.'

'Oh, well,' he muttered. Then, 'Thunder! If you're just determined not to be fair——

'I won't let you say that to me.' The snap in her voice stung him.

'You're not fair! You won't even let me talk!'

'What earthly good is talk!'

'Oh, if you're going to take that attitude——'