“Then what is it you dislike in me?” he suddenly demanded.

“I didn't say that I disliked anything in you.”

“But you have made fun of something in me?”

“No, no!”

“Then it wasn't the stirring of a guilty conscience when you asked me whether I should like to be made fun of? I took it for granted you'd been doing it.”

“You are very suspicious.”

“Yes; and what else?”

“Oh, you like to know just what every one thinks and feels.”

“Go on!” cried Staniford. “Analyze me, formulate me!”

“That's all.”