Stop; you shall try it, Dominic.

Well," she continued, smiling; "so you think it very unladylike for a woman to handle a gun, eh ?" "I--I did think something of the sort," said Nic hesitatingly.
"Of course you would; but I have often had to handle a gun, Dominic.

A woman who goes out with her husband into all kinds of savage places needs to be able to use a piece." "Then you have been in savage places ?" said Nic.
"Often, my boy; and it is a dangerous place we are in now.

And you'd like to ask whether I ever shot any one, eh ?" she said, smiling.

"No, I never did, and I hope I never shall.