"Well, and how did you manage to fight her off?"
"Fight her off?"
"Yes."
"Why, I couldn't."
"Couldn't?"
"No."
"Nonsense! A fellow that could baffle the widow, wouldn't have any trouble in baffling Louie."
"Oh, that's all very well; but you don't know the peculiar way she goes to work. She's such an awful tease. And she keeps at it too, like a good fellow."
"Still you were safe from her by reason of the very fact that your daily adventures were things that you could not tell her."
"Couldn't I, though?"