Io, on a brief trip ugg boots on sale from Philadelphia, lunched with him that week, and found him distrait.
     "It's only politics," he said. "You're not interested in politics," and, as usual, "Let's talk about you."
     She gave him that look which was like a smile deep in the shadows of her eyes. "Ban, do you know the famous saying of Terence?"
     He quoted the "Homo sum." "That one?" he asked.
     She nodded. "Now, hear my version: 'I classic short ugg am a woman; nothing that touches _my_ man is alien to my interests.'"
     He laughed. But there was a note of gratitude in his voice, almost humble, as he said: "You're the only woman in the world, Io, who can quote the classics and not seem a prig."
     "That's because I'm beautiful," she retorted impudently. "_Tell_ me I'm beautiful, Ban!"
     "You're the loveliest witch mens uggs on sale in the world," he cried.
     "So much for flattery. Now--politics."
     He recounted the Laird charges.
     "No; that wasn't fair," she agreed. "It was most unfair. But I don't believe Bob Laird knew the whole story. Did you ask him?"
     "Ask him? I certainly did not. You don't understand much about politics, dearest."
     "I was thinking of it from the point of view of the newspaper. If ugg classic short boots you're going to answer him in The Patriot, I should think you'd want to know just what his basis was. Besides, if he's wrong, I believe he'd take it back."
     "After all the damage has been done. He won't get the chance." Banneker's jaw set firm.
     "What shall you do now?"
     "Wait my chance, load my pen, and shoot to kill."
     "Let me see the ugg classic short editorial before you print it."
     "All right, Miss Meddlesome. But you won't let your ideas of fair play run away with you and betray me to the enemy? You're a Laird man, aren't you?"
     Her voice fell to a caressing half-note. "I'm a Banneker woman--in everything. Won't you ever remember that?"