Mainly, but not completely. The natural Collingham often made timid attempts to speak and had to be stifled. He was being stifled while the standardized Collingham tapped his egg. It was the pupil of Junia, Bickley, and the business world who finally sought to gain time by asking a counter-question.
"What do you want to know for?"
Edith was prepared for this.
"Because I may make a marriage that you and mother wouldn't like; and I think it possible that Bob may do the same."
Whatever the natural Collingham might have said to this, the man who had been evolved from him could have but one response.
"People who act on their own responsibility should be prepared to go the whole hog."
Edith sipped her coffee while she worked out the significance of this.
"Does that mean that you wouldn't give us any money?"
"Rather that, being so extremely independent, you wouldn't ask for it."
"Oh, ask for it—no; and yet—"