"Yet you enjoy to-day, don't you?"
"Yes, but——"
"And you'd rather be loafing on a dirty wharf, looking at a tramp steamer, than taking tea at the Plaza?"
"Yes, just now, perhaps——"
"And you're protesting because you feel it's proper to——"
"It——"
"And you really trust me so much that you're having difficulty in seeming alarmed?"
"Really——"
"And you'd rather play around with me than any of the Skull and Bones or Hasty Pudding men you know? Or foreign diplomats with spade beards?"
"At least they wouldn't——"