She came behind him and put her arms tightly round his neck and forced his head back so that she could conveniently kiss him.
"There!" she exclaimed, hurrying from the room, "I've kissed you anyhow!"
He leaped up and ran to the top of the stairs and leant over the banisters.
"If you do that again," he shouted at her, "I'll give you in charge!"
"Bogie-bogie!" she mocked.
Soon after that time, the Creams had gone on tour again, and John, with a vague promise to Mr. Cream that he would try and do a play for him, let Mrs. Cream slip out of his mind altogether. She had not attempted to make love to him again, and her attitude towards him became more natural, almost, he thought, more friendly. She appeared to bear him no malice, and her friendliness caused him to shed some of his antagonism to her. When they bade goodbye to Hinde and John, she turned to her husband as they were leaving, and said, "I kissed him one morning, and do you know what he did?"
"No," her husband answered.
"He said he'd give me in charge if I tried to do it again," she exclaimed, laughing as she spoke.
"Goo' Lor'!" said Cream. "That's the first time that's ever been said to you, Dolly!" He turned to John. "You're a funny sort of a chap, you are! Fancy not letting Dolly kiss you. Goo' Lor'!"
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