premise: Woe , alone , and at the lines ... We each are young , we each have a heart , Oh , why should we stand thus coldly apart ?<br>he looked at Meg with such a lackadiasical expression that she laughed outright and spoiled his song .<br>`` How can you be so cruel to me ? ''<br>he whispered , under cover of a lively chorus .<br>`` You 've kept close to that starched-up Englishwoman all day , and now you snub me . ''
hypothesis: Meg was not being serious during his chorus
reason: She laughed at him, so obviously not being serious.