You see, you've taken rather an unfair advantage of me by getting out of bed." (He paused for an answer, and still no answer came.)--"Don't imagine I'm ignobly lying down all the time, wrapped in a blanket.

I'm sitting on my pillow.

I know there's any amount to be said.

But how do you suppose I'm going to say it if I've got to stay here, all curled up like a blessed Buddha, and you're planted away over there like a monument of all the Christian virtues?
Are you coming back to bed, or are you not ?" She shivered.

To her mind his flippancy, appalling in the circumstances, sufficiently revealed the man he was.