"You can sit where you please, of course." "You ain't very obliging," said Conrad sullenly.

"I need the money, and that's what made me propose it.

As you've made so much fuss about it, we'll take orchestra seats." This he did, though unwillingly.
"I don't think I shall ever like that boy," thought Ben.

"He's a little too mean." They both enjoyed the play, Ben perhaps with the most zest, for he had never before attended a city theater.

At eleven o'clock the curtain fell, and they went out.
"Come, Ben," said Conrad, "you might treat a fellow to soda water." "I will," answered Ben.