"I didn't want you to put it to me." "To put it to you-- ?" "The question of what you were at last--a week ago--to see for yourself.

I didn't want to have to lie for her.

I felt that to be too much for me.

A man of course is always expected to do it--to do it, I mean, for a woman; but not a woman for another woman; unless perhaps on the tit-for-tat principle, as an indirect way of protecting herself.

I don't need protection, so that I was free to 'funk' you--simply to dodge your test.