“You weren't so nice to me last night.”
“How could it have mattered then?”
Silence for a moment. Then —
“However — I want to see you.”
“I want to see you too.”
“Suppose I don't go to Southampton, and come into town this afternoon?”
“No — I don't think this afternoon.”
“Very well.”
“It's impossible this afternoon. Various — — ”
We talked like that for a while and then abruptly we weren't talking any longer.