She seems to have been ready to worry about his constancy pretty early in their affair!" Her companion was again thoughtful.

"Yes," he said, seeming to be rather irksomely impressed with Alice's suggestion.

"Yes; it does appear so." Alice glanced at his serious face, and yielded to an audacious temptation.

"You mustn't take it so hard," she said, flippantly.
"It isn't about you: it's only about Romeo and Juliet." "See here!" he exclaimed.

"You aren't at your mind-reading again, are you?
There are times when it won't do, you know!" She leaned toward him a little, as if companionably: they were walking slowly, and this geniality of hers brought her shoulder in light contact with his for a moment.