"I shouldn't have answered you that way--I'm--" "We'll forget it all." A flashing smile had crossed the girl's lips.
"Fred never knows how to take Ba'tiste.

They're always quarreling this way.

The only trouble is that Fred--" and she turned to face him piquantly--"always takes in the whole world when he gets mad.

And that includes me.

I think," and the little nose took a more upward turn than ever, "that Ba'tiste is entirely right, Fred.