"Good-morning, my dear! Is it only now that you have found that out?"
"You are a most extraordinary man."
"What new marvel have you found in me, my dear?"
"To think that there is only about one hour of the twenty-four in this disgusting climate in which one can sleep comfortably and you would not allow me to have that, but must get up and disturb me by shaving."
"I am exceedingly sorry if I have disturbed you, my dear. But every time I wakened during the night you were sleeping very peacefully, and——"
"Not a bit of it! I have not slept at all."
"And when I got up you were not only sleeping, but snoring gently, and——"
"That's all nonsense! I've been wide-awake all night."
"And, although I have been about for nearly an hour, you continued to snore very gently until a moment before you spoke, and——"
"Hector, I'm astonished at you! You know perfectly well that I never sleep in hot weather. I do not understand why you ever chose to come to such a country as this in the summer."