"Yes, to my question," said Hugh Marshall.
"I do not quite know what is either question," I replied; "and a judge ought to understand his cause."
"Is it my duty to go and plunge into the mêlée at home, because my mother and two aunts and three sisters are all telling me they will renounce me if I do not? I say, what does one signify?"
"And I say, how may one escape from insignificance? - anyhow?"
"A man with your income need not ask that," said Ransom.
"What does Miss Randolph say?" De Saussure insisted.
"If you will tell me, Mr. De Saussure, what the South is fighting for, I can better answer you."
"That speech is Daisy all over!" said Ransom impatiently. "She never will commit herself, if she can get somebody to do it for her."
"Fighting for freedom - for independence, of course!" Mr. De
Saussure said, opening his eyes. "Is there any question?"
"How was their freedom threatened?"