I have thought about that, yes. She would likely have not cared about the actual truth of the matter, and I had little to trade with, other than my own qualities, and I doubt I could have performed whatever was needed to relieve myself of them. Perhaps I could have used force, but that would likely not have ended well.

Still, I keep thinking that there must be some way that I could have done more. If I had brought more people together, or taken more time to think, perhaps.