“Am I? But I am a woman, and not a man, and therefore I daresay as irritable as all other women.”
“You mean that men can be every whit as irritable,—myself, for example.”
“Now you are putting words into my mouth that I never said. Is it a guilty conscience, Richard?”
“You persist in joking when I want you to be serious!”
“Oh, Richard, what a childish conversation. Instead of sitting here and talking, let us....”
“Well, what? Let us what?”
“Nothing, I’ve thought better of it.”
“Let us go out, you were going to say. Always the same folly! Have you any idea of the depth of the snow? Out, indeed!”
“I never said it.”