_I_ am in earnest." Agatha hesitated, uncertain whether he might not be playing with her as she had just been playing with him.

"Take care," she said.

"I may change my mind and be in earnest, too; and then how will you feel, Mr.
Trefusis ?" "I think, under our altered relations, you had better call me Sidney." "I think we had better drop the joke.

It was in rather bad taste, and I should not have made it, perhaps." "It would be an execrable joke; therefore I have no intention of regarding it as one.

You shall be held to your offer, Agatha.