“Let me take you home.”

“No!”

“You say ‘no’ a lot,” I teased.

“I learned from you.”

“Now let go of me, please. You can take a taxi. But don’t forget it’s late, and you might have the bad luck of getting a perverted or even psychopathic driver. He might feel desire for you… and try to take you by force. I wouldn’t want to wake up tomorrow to news that my wife was found dead, thrown in a ravine, with signs of sexual and physical assault.”

She ...