Why should he make me say out here that I don't love him!" "Got you my girl," said Jim.
"Then it's no engagement ?" said Robert.
"Listen to the row fools make, rushing in," said Jim maliciously.
"No, the engagement is broken," said Josephine.
"World coming to pieces bit by bit," said Lilly.

Jim was twisting in his chair, and looking like a Chinese dragon, diabolical.

The room was uneasy.
"What gives you such a belly-ache for love, Jim ?" said Lilly, "or for being loved?
Why do you want so badly to be loved ?" "Because I like it, damn you," barked Jim.

"Because I'm in need of it." None of them quite knew whether they ought to take it as a joke.

It was just a bit too real to be quite pleasant.
"Why are you such a baby ?" said Lilly.