"He doesn't funk." It only, however, half contented Fanny, who thoughtfully raised her eyebrows.

"He's prodigious; but what is there--as you've 'fixed' it--TO dodge?
Unless," she pursued, "it's her getting near him; it's--if you'll pardon my vulgarity--her getting AT him.

That," she suggested, "may count with him." But it found the Princess prepared.

"She can get near him here.

She can get 'at' him.