Roberts: ‘I’d rather not—now.’
Willis: ‘Well, try it, anyway.’
Roberts: ‘Ha, ha, ha!’
Willis: ‘Once more.’
Roberts: ‘Ha, ha, ha!’
Willis: ‘Pretty ghastly; but I guess you can come it.’
Roberts: ‘I’ll try. And then what?’
Willis: ‘And then you say, “I hadn’t put it on when I went out, and when I got after that fellow and took it back, I was simply getting somebody else’s watch!” Then you hold out both watches to her, and laugh again. Everybody laughs, and crowds round you to examine the watches, and you make fun and crack jokes at your own expense all the time, and pretty soon old Bemis says, “Why, this is my watch, now!” and you laugh more than ever—’
Roberts: ‘I’m afraid I couldn’t laugh when he said that. I don’t believe I could laugh. It would make my blood run cold.’
Willis: ‘Oh no, it wouldn’t. You’d be in the spirit of it by that time.’