Campbell: “You did? And what did she say?”
Roberts: “She said ‘No!’ very sharply. She seemed to take it in dudgeon; she fired up.”
Campbell: “I should think so. Sounded like an improper advertisement.”
Roberts, in great distress: “Don’t, Willis, for Heaven’s sake!”
Campbell: “Why, you must see it had a very clandestine look. How did you get out of it?”
Roberts: “I didn’t. I got into it further. I told her my wife had made an appointment for me to meet a cook here that she’d engaged—”
Campbell: “You added insult to injury. Go on!”
Roberts: “And that she corresponded somewhat to the description; and—and—”
Campbell: “Well?”
Roberts: “And she told me she was no more a cook than my wife was; and she said she’d teach me to be playing my jokes on ladies; and she grabbed up her things and flew out of the room.”