"I'm to the job, Macmillan." And right now she needed something else to focus on. So really once she got through the tail end of the hangover, Daphne would be good to go. No one would have been any wiser if Papa Macmillan hadn't caught her.
"But I think that you came in here to get a work out in, rather than talk, so what do you say?" While she was open to a sparring partner, she was also using this as a sort of litmus test. If he agreed to it, she would consider this to be a not issue and if he didn't well a lot of different things could be depend on the reason for turning her down.