What a crazy question that is!" She smiled.

"I guessed you did," she said.

"Nobody but a man would sew a white button on a white shirt--or one that was white once--with black thread." He looked at the button and then at her.

His anger returned.
"You said I wa'n't a man, didn't you ?" he demanded.
"Yes, I did.

But I'll have to take part of it back.