Shaw was, said to have been, dining with a woman when he asked her, if, assuming he were to offer her one million pounds, she would go to bed with him. She paused, only for a moment, to reflect that one million pounds was a great deal of money, before agreeing that she would find it difficult to resist.
"Well, would you do it for ten shillings?" was his next approach.
"Certainly not!" she replied, somewhat sharply. "What do you take me for?".
"I thought we had already established that." said Shaw. "Now we're negotiating about the price."
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