I didn't mean to trouble you.

I only--If you will please take this umbrella--" Again he tried to transfer the umbrella and again she pushed it away.
"I--I'm not crying," she gasped; "but--oh, dear! this is SO funny!" Mr.Ellery gazed blankly at her through the rain-streaked dark.

This was the most astonishing young person he had met in his twenty-three years of worldly experience.
"Funny!" he repeated.

"Well, perhaps it is.

Our ideas of fun seem to differ.