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54 ing alarm.] You know me, don’t you? [ ''seizes her suddenly and kisses her. After a moment she frees herself and looks at him again with amazement. He clicks his heels together and assumes his martyr’s pose, but his mouth twitches with the ghost of a smile''.] Sid, if you don’t tell me why you're actin’ this way I’m a-goin’ to scream!

I ain’t actin’! This is nachel!

Nachel?

Yeh. Don’t you mind the last time you seen me you told me never to speak to you ag’in as long as I lived?

Oh! So that’s it!

[Laughs guiltily]

Yeh! You know I allus did try to please you!

[Backs away from him angrily]

If you didn’t aim to speak to me, what’d you go an’ kiss me fer?