"No," she said.
"Would you like to go?"
"Yes, with somebody I liked," she said in her simple way.
"With me?" he asked in the off-hand tone that may be taken any way the hearer pleases.
Her simplicity was not dullness. "No," she said quickly. "You would tell me funny lies about everything."
"But you would laugh, and you would like it," he said.
She had nothing to say to this.
"Outside they have regular shops for shaving and cutting hair," he went on. "Barber-shops they are called."
"I know," she said offended. "I read."
"I'll bet you didn't know there was a lady barber in Prince George."