Campbell: "No, it's quite enough, thank you." He remains pensively silent.
Mrs. Somers, after waiting for him to speak: "Bores for bores, don't you hate the silent ones most?"
Campbell, desperately rousing himself: "Mrs. Somers, if you only knew how disagreeable I was going to make myself just before I concluded to hold my tongue!"
Mrs. Somers: "Really? What were you going to say?"
Campbell: "Do you actually wish to know?"
Mrs. Somers: "Oh no; I only thought you wished to tell."
Campbell: "Not at all. You complained of my being silent."
Mrs. Somers: "Did I? I was wrong. I will never do so again." She laughs in her fan.
Campbell: "And I complain of your delay. You can tell me now, just as well as two weeks hence, whether you love me enough to marry me or not."
Mrs. Somers: "You promised not to recur to that subject without some hint from me. You have broken your promise."