"Mr. Sutcliffe—if you'd known a girl when she was only fourteen, and you liked her and you never saw her again till she was seventeen, and then you found that she'd gone and cut her hair all off, would it give you an awful shock?"
"Depends on how much I liked her."
"If you'd liked her awfully—would it make you leave off liking her?"
"I think my friendship could stand the strain."
"If it wasn't just friendship? Supposing it was Mrs. Sutcliffe?"
"I shouldn't like my wife to cut her hair off. It wouldn't be at all becoming to her."
"No. But when she was young?"
"Ah—when she was young—"
"Would it have made any difference?"
"No. No. It wouldn't have made any difference at all."