I don't grant her the power to be impudent to me.' 'Do you think she likes you ?' asked Ursula.
'Well, no, I shouldn't think she did.' 'Then why does she ask you to go to Breadalby and stay with her ?' Gudrun lifted her shoulders in a low shrug.
'After all, she's got the sense to know we're not just the ordinary run,' said Gudrun.

'Whatever she is, she's not a fool.

And I'd rather have somebody I detested, than the ordinary woman who keeps to her own set.

Hermione Roddice does risk herself in some respects.' Ursula pondered this for a time.
'I doubt it,' she replied.

'Really she risks nothing.