‘Where’s the outcry?’
‘Did you mean me to make one!’
‘What could you do but vindicate your sex?’
‘Then you would not have thought me in earnest.’
He made a funny pleased face and a little bow.
‘The truth was,’ said Violet, ‘I was thinking whether I understood you.’
‘May I ask your conclusion?’
‘I don’t exactly know. I don’t think you meant we should never talk of what interests us.’
‘When they know when to hold their tongues, perhaps I should have said.’
‘O, yes, that I quite think.’