"Yes."
"Well," he said cautiously, "if it was the thing I wanted to do, perhaps I might have a try at it."
"I knew it," she exclaimed triumphantly.
"But," he explained, "I never desired to overturn any government."
"You probably have never seen any that you thought worth while overturning."
Her confident rejoinder perplexed him and he remained silent.
"Also," she continued, still more confidently, "I am certain that if you were in love, no obstacles[95] would prove too great for you to surmount. Would they?"
"Really," he said, "I don't know. I'm not very enterprising."
"That is the answer of a delightfully modest man. Your own hero would return me such an answer, Mr. Smith. But I—and your heroine also—understand you—I mean your hero."
"Do you?" he asked gravely.