You--you----" "I'm not scolding at you.

There! What a goose you are, Splutter! Don't, for heaven's sake, go to whimpering on the street! I didn't say anything to make you feel that way.

Come, pull yourself together." "I'm not whimpering." "No, of course not; but then you look as if you were on the edge of it.
What a little idiot!".