I wouldn't have said a word to you tonight, if you hadn't walked right up to me and started to dig into me.

Of course, I had to fight back--the man who won't isn't a normal human being." "Oh, I know." Evadna's tone was resentful.

"From Adam down to you, it has always been 'The woman, she tempted me.' You're perfectly horrid, even if you have apologized.

'The woman, she tempted me,' and--" "I beg your pardon; the woman didn't," he corrected blandly.

"The woman insisted on scrapping.