"You know well enough that I am." "Oh," she said absently, "then you are ?" He frowned, tightened his lips, then burst into laughter, in which she joined.
"It's my own fault," he confessed.

"I shouldn't have baited you.

I'll be careful in the future." "In the meantime go on laughing, and I'll see about breakfast.

Is there anything you would fancy ?" He shook his head.
"It will do you good to eat something.

Your fever has burned out, and you are merely weak.