Don't you know that women will lose their patience sometimes?
There! Shake hands and make it up.

And take away the rest of the cake, if you like it." Jack looked at her in speechless surprise.

"Leave me to myself!" she cried, relapsing into irritability.

"Do you hear?
Go! go! go!" Jack left the room without a word of protest.

The rapid changes in her, the bewildering diversity of looks and tones that accompanied them, completely cowed him.