"He's bullet-proof." "There are people," she agreed, "that a gunshot will not injure.

There was a man like that among my people--my father's enemy--but he was not proof against steel." "Your old man knifed him, eh ?" She nodded.
"Ugh!" the man shivered.

"I couldn't do that.

A gun is a straight man's friend, but a knife is the weapon of traitors.

I couldn't drive it home." "Does this man suspect ?" "No." "Then it is child's play.