"You are very good to let me talk just what I think, without being offended," said Flora. "You will not think me rude, Mr. Murray? I really want to know your opinions. Don't you think that in such things there is a tacit implied reproof of the other persons present who do not as you do?"
"How can I help that?"
"But is that polite?"
"That question sinks before the other—Is it duty?"
"I cannot see it to be duty," said Flora.
"I have always been a little confused about it," said Meredith; "in such cases and places, I mean."
"It makes one very disagreeably singular," Flora added.
"It is impossible to follow Christ fully, Miss Flora, and not be that more or less."
"Disagreeably singular, Mr. Murray?"
"I agree with you, I am sure, in thinking that it is disagreeable to be singular."