`` Good evening , '' said Rosemary coldly , standing up . '' ` Evening , girl . Sit down again -- sit down again . I want to have a talk with you . Bless the girl , what 's she looking at me like that for ? I do n't want to eat you -- I 've had my supper . Sit down and be civil . '' `` I can hear what you have to say quite as well here , '' said Rosemary . `` So you can , girl , if you use your ears . I only wanted you to be comfortable . You look so durned uncomfortable , standing there . Well , I 'LL sit anyway . '' Norman accordingly sat down in the very place John Meredith had once sat . The contrast was so ludicrous that Rosemary was afraid she would go off into a peal of hysterical laughter over it . Norman cast his hat aside , placed his huge , red hands on his knees , and looked up at her with his eyes a-twinkle . `` Come , girl , do n't be so stiff , '' he said , ingratiatingly . When he liked he could be very ingratiating . `` Let 's have a reasonable , sensible , friendly chat . There 's something I want to ask you . Ellen says she wo n't , so it 's up to me to do it . ''
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