(The Classical Mistress is still inarticulate.)
"You are not giving me your opinion."
"It seems to me I've said a great deal more than I've any right to say."
"Oh you. We know all about that. I asked for your opinion."
"And when I gave it you told me I was under an influence."
"What if I did? And what if it were so?"
"What indeed? You would get the benefit of two opinions instead of one."
Now if Miss Cursiter were thinking of Dr. Cautley there was some point in what Rhoda said; for in the back of her mind the Head had a curious respect for masculine judgment.
"There can be no two opinions about Miss Quincey."
"I don't know. Miss Quincey," said Rhoda thoughtfully to her pencil, "is a large subject."