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"Do you?"

"Of course I do Everybody spoils you and so do I"

"Yes--I am rather in that way, I suppose"

"What way?"

"Oh--spoiled"

"Stephen!"

"Yes?"

And in a lower voice: "Please don't say such things--will you?"

"No"

"Especially to me"

"Especially to you No, I won't, Sylvia"

And, after a hesitation, she continued sweetly: "I wonder what you were doing, all alone in that old house of yours, when I called you up?"

"I? Let oing off somewhere?"

"I think so"

"Where?"

"I don't know, Sylvia"

"Stephen, how absurd! You ! If you mean that you don't care to tell me--"

"I mean--that"

"I decline to be snubbed I'm shameless, and I wish to be informed Please tell me"