"I? I can't manage it for myself! You're making fun of me!"
"Yes, I am!"
"You're a friend, Gustav, you really are!"
"Perhaps I am, perhaps I'm not. It's difficult to say. But as a sensible girl...."
"Oh! shut up!"
She took up a keen-edged paper knife and threatened him in fun, but it looked very much as if she were in earnest.
"You are very beautiful to-day, Agnes," said Falander.
"To-day? Why to-day? Has it never struck you before?"
"Of course it has!"
"Why are you sighing?"