That, for some reason or other, made me laugh. "I'm afraid, Terry," I said, "my cross-examination of you is going to be rather stiff.... First of all, you say you want to take the job?"
"Yes."
"And yet you told her you'd think it over?"
"Yes."
"Are you going to think it over?"
"I—I suppose so."
"So you haven't quite made up your mind?"
"Well—not absolutely."
"So it comes to this—that a woman's persuasion stands in the way of what you want to do?"
He shook his head. "No, no. I must take the job. There's no alternative—I quite see that. But—I don't like to disappoint her."