You don't answer my question"-- he kept it up; "but if you aren't in anybody's hands so much the better.

There's nothing then but what makes for your going." Chad turned this over.

"I don't answer your question ?" He spoke quite without resenting it.

"Well, such questions have always a rather exaggerated side.

One doesn't know quite what you mean by being in women's 'hands.' It's all so vague.