"First I threaten to shoot you.

Then my brother stuns you.

And both times when you are doing us a service." "Please!" he laughed.

"And if it comes to that, what must you people think of a down-at-heel Yankee who descends on you and cadges for a job after he's been told there's no work here for him ?" "Oh, but there is!" she insisted.

"Milo told me so, this morning.