“You speak as if you––”
“As if I knew!” He took the words out of her mouth. “I do.”
“How do you know?”
“I tried it.”
“And then?”
“Kicked out!” he replied with a grimace.
Marion laughed in spite of her burning eagerness to hear more.
“Not exactly kicked,” Smythe explained. “But I’d rather have been. He was as polite as––he’s a gentleman, you see, so he knew how to do it without using his hands or his feet.”
“But why?” insisted Marion.