11/20 You didn't say anything at all, and she must think that means she converted you. Then, after a silence, he seemed to be in need of sympathetic comprehension. "It _was_ kind o' funny, though, wasn't it ?" he said, appealingly. It seems--well, it does seem kind o' funny to me." "Why does it ?" Fred inquired, preserving his gravity. "Why should it seem funny to you ?" "I don't mean funny like something's funny you laugh at," Ramsey explained laboriously. |