"Dere is always need for everybody to say what he thinks," said Mr. Herder. "Here we have all got ourselves in a puzzle, and we don't know which way we stand."
"I am afraid every man must get out of that puzzle for himself, sir."
"Is it a puzzle at all?" said Elizabeth facing round upon him.
"Not when you have got out of it."
"Well, what's the right road out of it?"
"Break through everything in the way," said Rufus. "That seems to be the method in favour."
"What do you think is the right way?" Elizabeth repeated without looking at the last speaker.
"If you set your face in the right quarter, there is always a straight road out in that direction," Winthrop answered with a little bit of a smile.
"Doesn't that come pretty near my rule?" said Elizabeth with a smile much broader.
"I think not. If I understood, your rule was to make a straight road out for yourself in any direction."