She said, “I’d always had ideas about detectives.”
“What sort of ideas?”
“Oh, big, powerful men who try to browbeat you, or sinister people in disguises.”
“It’s hardly safe to generalize.”
“You must have an exciting life.”
“I guess I do, if you stop to think of it that way.”
“Don’t you sometimes?”
“What?”
“Stop to think of it that way.”
“Probably not in the way you point out.”