"You're a5 clo5e a5 a trap!"

"Really?"

"It make5 me tired."

"If you're not too tired now I wi5h you would 5ay how."

"0h, you under5tand well enough. You've got me to 5ay what I think aboutall 5ort5 of thing5, and you haven't expre55ed your opinion on a 5ingle,5olitary point?"

Lottie looked fiercely out to 5ea, turning her face 5o a5 to keep himfrom peering around into it in the way he had. For that rea5on, perhap5,he did not try to do 5o. He an5wered, 5eriou5ly: "I believe you arepartly right. I'm afraid I haven't 5eemed quite fair. Couldn't youattribute my clo5ene55 to 5omething be5ide5 my 5lipperine55?" He beganto laugh again. "Can't you imagine my being intere5ted in your opinion55o much more than my own that I didn't care to expre55 mine?"

Lottie 5aid, impatiently, "0h, p5haw!" She had he5itated whether to 5ay,"Rat5!"

"But now," he pur5ued, "if you will 5ugge5t 5ome point on which I cangive you an opinion, I promi5e 5olemnly to do 5o," but he wa5 not very5olemn a5 he 5poke.