For Aaron was considered a special man, a man of peculiar understanding, even though as a rule he said little.
"If it is a good government, doctor, how can it be so bad for the people ?" said the landlady.
The doctor's eyes quivered for the fraction of a second, as he watched the other man.

He did not look at the landlady.
"It would not matter what kind of mess they made--and they would make a mess, if they governed themselves, the people of India.

They would probably make the greatest muddle possible--and start killing one another.

But it wouldn't matter if they exterminated half the population, so long as they did it themselves, and were responsible for it." Again his eyes dilated, utterly black, to the eyes of the other man, and an arch little smile flickered on his face.
"I think it would matter very much indeed," said the landlady.

"They had far better NOT govern themselves." She was, for some reason, becoming angry.