He barged ahead, sullen as a bull and as obstinate.
"A don't know; and A don't care. A know what A want and A know A'm going to get it."
She met him light as a rapier thrust.
"I thart you was a man, Joe."
"Better'n a no-man anyway."
She stopped dead and faced him.
"Where's my no-man now then?" she cried. "And where are you?"
That time she had planted her dart home. He glared at her savage, sullen, and with lowered head.
"Thou doesna say A'm a coward?"
Slowly she answered,