“I have been maligned. Is that what you meant?”
“I think I did mean something of the kind.”
“Then I’m a very poor actor. That should settle the question.”
“I’ve wondered how you became so very Canadian,” she said thoughtfully.
“What’s the matter with the Canadians?”
“Nothing. I haven’t met very many yet, but on the whole I’m favorably impressed by them. They’re direct, blunt, perhaps less complex than we are.”
“No trimmings,” he suggested. “They don’t muss up good material so that it can hardly be recognized. You can tell what a man is when you see him or hear him talk.”
“I don’t know,” Muriel argued. “I’ve an idea that it might be difficult, even in Canada.”
He let this pass.
“What do you think of the country?” he asked.