There was an uneasy sound in Charmian's voice.
"Yes. Didn't you wish me to listen?"
"I suppose I did. But you've been thinking. What have you been thinking?"
"That it's a long journey up the ray," said Susan, with a sort of gentle firmness.
"Ah—the ray! I remember your saying that to me long ago."
"We've got a great deal to learn, I think, as well as to teach."
Charmian was silent for a minute.
"Do you mean that you think I only care to teach, that I—that I am not much of a pupil?" she said at length.
"Perhaps that is putting it too strongly. But I believe your husband had a great deal to give."
"Claude! Do you? But yes, of course—Susan!" Charmian's voice changed, became almost sharply interrogative. "Do you mean that Claude could teach me more than I could ever teach him?"