Why, they even went so far as to suggest that you could do nothing, that you were bound by rules and must follow like the rest of them; but I told them I knew better." "Ah!" said Sir Archibald in his most dignified manner.

"I trust I have a mind of my own, but--" "Exactly! So I said to Mr.Dunn.

'Rules or no rules,' I said, 'my uncle will do the fair thing.' And I know you will," cried Miss Brodie triumphantly.

"And if you look at it, there's a very big chance that the boy never did the thing, and certainly if he did it at all it was when he was quite incapable.

Oh, I know quite well what the lawyers say.