"Well, no--since you ask me." Maria rubbed it in.

"Not really either ?" "Not at all.

She rates him rather high." With which indeed, immediately, he took himself up.

"Well, he IS good too, in his way.

It depends on what you want him for." Miss Gostrey, however, wouldn't let it depend on anything--wouldn't have it, and wouldn't want him, at any price.