"Do you know, Madame Obosky had the impertinence to say that you would have turned tail and fled if those people had shown fight." He grinned.

"She's an amazing person, isn't she?
Wonderful faculty for sizing the most of us up." "You would have run ?" "Like a rabbit," he answered, unabashed.

"That's a little too tight, I think, Miss Clinton.

Would you mind loosening it up a bit ?" "Oh, I'm sorry.

Is that better?
Now the other one, please." "Yes, I'm an awful coward," he said, after a long silence.
She looked up quickly.