“Against what?”
“People.”
“Ye start on the basis that people are your enemies?”
“I think they are.”
“Look here, tell me about yourself. What shall I call you? Do I have to say ‘Miss Bryce’?”
“My name is Isabelle.”
“Doesn’t suit ye. Have ye no pet name?”
“Somebody I liked once called me ‘the cricket’.”
“That’s it—Cricket—may I call ye that?”