"Certainly not." She added in modification: "That is if you like it."
"Well, supposing I don't like it?"
She did not reply for a minute or two. Then: "If you really don't like it, I should be rather glad."
"Why?" asked Paul.
She raised a piteous face.
"Yes, tell me," he insisted. "Tell me why you agree with that cad Higgins?"
"I don't agree with him."
"You must."
They fenced for a while. At last he pinned her down.
"Well, if you want to know," she declared, with a flushed cheek, "I don't think it's a man's job."