Afterward he said, "Now, I wonder what in blue thunder you mean this time ?" "Mean this time?
My meaning is very plain, Hollie.

I supposed the words were clear enough." "Yes," he said thoughtfully, "your words were clear enough, but then you were of course referring back to some event, or series of events, in which I had the singular ill fortune to displease you.

Maybe you don't know yourself, and spoke only from the emotion generated by the event, or series of events, in which, as I have said, I had the singular ill fortune to displease you." "How awf'ly clever!" she said.
"But I can't recall the event, or series of events, at all," he continued, musing with a scholarly air and disregarding her mockery.

"I can't remember a thing about it.

To be sure, it might have been that time when----" "I think it very stupid of you to hunt for a meaning when I believe I made everything so perfectly clear," she said wrathfully.
"Well, you yourself might not be aware of what you really meant," he answered sagely.