Don't you think, Mary V, you're kinda changeable ?" Mary V gave him a quick, intent look and bit her lower lip.

"I only wish I could change you a little bit," she retorted.

"I don't want to be disagreeable, Johnny, after you were given up for lost and everything, and then turned out to be all right.

But that's just the trouble! You--" "The trouble is that I wasn't killed?
Good golly!" "No, I don't mean that at all.

But we thought you were, and everybody in the country was simply frantic, and you weren't even--" "Huh!" Johnny got up, plainly hesitating between dignified retreat and another profitless argument with Mary V.