But Miss Rosemary Allen stopped him with a push that was not altogether playful, and scowled at him viciously.
"I am in a most furious mood today," she said.

"I want to scratch somebody's eyes out! I want to say WORDS.

Don't come close, or I might pull your hair or something, James." She called him James because that was not his name, and because she had learned a good deal about his past misdeeds and liked to take a sly whack at his notorious tendency to forget the truth, by calling him Truthful James.
"All right; that suits me fine.

It's worth a lot to have you close enough to pull hair.

Where have you been all this long while ?" Being a bold young man and very much in love, he kissed her in spite of her professed viciousness.
"Oh, I've been to town--it hasn't been more than three days since we met and had that terrible quarrel James.