‘Where else?’
‘Oh, mainly Unitarian’, adding ‘I have not, however, any intention of joining the Unitarians, but they have helped me’, and, in answer to a farther remark ‘that I ought to make up my mind clearly black or white’.
‘That I can’t do.... However on the whole, though very unorthodox, I believe I am on the whole most of a Churchwoman, and certainly non-proselytizing, nor, I believe in the least likely to originate any religious difficulty.’
Still he was evidently ‘stumped’, and I daresay I shall hear more of it.
Yet, on the whole, feeling as I do, I cannot regret speaking.
‘Be true to every honest thought
And as thy thought thy speech.’[[35]]
She visited the Principal of Owens’ College, however, and the Headmaster of the Grammar School, drew up a tentative list of names for Council, and had a long talk with Mrs. Gaskell, who promised to be a “Lady Visitor” if the College was founded. (“I explaining it to mean ‘right to visit’.”)
“As to my contumacy (it’s really that and not the heresy!), W. and G. to be consulted. I said how I wished him to do only what he thought right,—yet believing they would be wise to have me(!)
I think he surely wishes it, and, as I should guess he would find his consultees not otherwise inclined, a very small push would decide him that way.