I can't really argue with that. Blast you. There isn't enough information in the story to know what was really going on. Some possible contexts are a lot more

I can't really argue with that. Blast you. There isn't enough information in the story to know what was really going on. Some possible contexts are a lot more venial than others. I think what irritated me was just the gloating tone of "we sure put one over on them"... but perhaps they didn't mean it that way.