Ransom: “But I’ve nothing to do with her picking me up or pushing me down. All that I’ve got to do is to go and surrender myself.”
Grinnidge: “Yes. Well; I guess you can’t go too soon. I like your company; but I advise you as a friend not to lose time. Where does she live?”
Ransom: “That’s the remarkable part of it: she lives in this house.”
Miss Reed and Miss Spaulding, in subdued chorus: “Oh!”
Grinnidge, taking his pipe out of his mouth in astonishment: “No!”
Ransom: “I just came in here to give my good resolutions a rest while I was screwing my courage up to ask for her.”
Miss Reed: “Don’t you think he’s very humorous? Give his good resolutions a rest! That’s the way he always talks.”
Miss Spaulding: “’Sh!”
Grinnidge: “You said you came for my advice.”
Ransom: “So I did. But I didn’t promise to act upon it. Well!” He goes toward the door.