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"Of course I am! How long have I been looking
forward to it?"
"I don't know," he said sharply, abating nothing of his fierceness.
"How long have you?"
"Why--ever since you went away!"
"Is that true? Lucy, is that true?"
"You are funny!" she said. "Of course it's true. Do tell me what's
the matter with you, George!"
"I will!" he exclaimed. "I was a boy when I saw you last. I see that
now, though I didn't then. Well, I'm not a boy any longer. I'm a
man, and a man has a right to demand a totally different treatment."
"Why has he?"
"What?"
"I don't seem to be able to understand you at all, George. Why
shouldn't a boy be treated just as well as a man?"
George seemed to find himself at a loss. "Why shouldn't--Well, he
shouldn't, because a man has a right to certain explanations."
"What explanations?"
"Whether he's been made a toy of!" George almost shouted. "That's
what I want to know!"
Lucy shook her head despairingly. "You are the queerest person! You
say you're a man now, but you talk more like a boy than ever.


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