That far I was master.
"No," I told her grimly.

"If I saw that you were going to do anything so foolish as to scream, I should just kiss you, and--kiss you till you were glad to be sensible about it." Well, she tried first to look calmly amused; then she tried to look insulted, and to freeze me into sanity.

She ended, however, by looking a good bit confused, and by blushing scarlet.

I had won that far.

I kept her hand held tight in mine; I could feel it squirm to get away, and it felt--oh, thunder! "Let's play something else," she said, after a long minute.