What's the matter with you?
Haven't you ever been in love before ?" "None of your business," replied Hawker.
Hollanden thought upon this point for a time.

"Well," he admitted finally, "that's true in a general way, but I hate to see you managing your affairs so stupidly." Rage flamed into Hawker's face, and he cried passionately, "I tell you it is none of your business!" He suddenly confronted the other man.
Hollanden surveyed this outburst with a critical eye, and then slapped his knee with emphasis.

"You certainly have got it--a million times worse than I thought.

Why, you--you--you're heels over head." "What if I am ?" said Hawker, with a gesture of defiance and despair.
Hollanden saw a dramatic situation in the distance, and with a bright smile he studied it.

"Say," he exclaimed, "suppose she should not go to the picnic to-morrow?
She said this morning she did not know if she could go.