It isn't buffoonery.

I don't play with sacred things.
I'm in earnest, Molly.

Can't you see it?
What do you take me for ?" She heard the note of honesty in his voice and shifted her batteries.
"You may be--for a moment," she said, scorn vibrating in every word she uttered.

"But you will soon get over it, you know.

By to-morrow, or even sooner, all danger will be over." "Stop!" exclaimed Charlie.