‘In what way?
‘In letting him, and you, think I had been at all influenced by authority, scriptural or patristic.’
‘May I ask, why, then, did you decline the ceremony the other evening?’
‘Ah, you, too, have heard of it!’ she said quickly.
‘No.’
‘What then?’
‘I saw it.’
She blushed and looked down the river. ‘I cannot give my reasons,’ she said.
‘Of course not,’ said Somerset.
‘I would give a great deal to possess real logical dogmatism.’