't is just that our tastes differ somewhat '' `` you are right , of course . 'but even so , it looks as if he has n't got enough men to cover every gate sufficiently . never had she thought she would meet a man who could say something like that with a serious face and not make her run the other way , thinking she had just come across a maniac . 'we just have to last a little longer . i was n't going to give it to her on a silver platter . 