“Somehow I suspicioned that,” he made answer, with banter in his dry tones.
“Of course I would be glad to know that he is not a villain,” she defended.
“Sure!”
“Well, one doesn’t like to think that a friend——”
“He’s your friend, is he?” chuckled Mac.
“Why shouldn’t he be?”
“I’m offering no objections, ma’am.”
“You act as if——”
“Sho! Don’t pay any attention to me. Sometimes I get these spells of laughing in to myself. They just come. Doctors never could find a reason.”
“Oh, well!”