serious matter."

HE: "It was very serious for me when you didn't meet my self-
abasement as you had led me to expect you would."

SHE: "Don't make fun! I'm trying to think whether I can forgive
you."

HE, with insinuation: "Don't you believe you could think better if
you put your head on my shoulder?"

SHE: "Nonsense! Then I should forgive you without thinking." After
a season of reflection: "No, I CAN'T forgive you. I never could
forgive eavesdropping. It's TOO low."

HE, in astonishment: "Why, you did it yourself!"

SHE: "But you began it. Besides, it's very different for a man.
Women are weak, poor, helpless creatures. They have to use finesse.
But a man should be above it."

HE: "You said you could forgive me anything."

SHE: "Ah, but I didn't know what you'd been doing!"

HE, with pensive resignation, and a feint of going: "Then I suppose
it's all over between us."

SHE, relenting: "If you could think of any reason WHY I should
forgive you" -