Mrs.Potts was not a person that one should adopt a tone with except after long and prayerful deliberation.
"Oh, I've considered it long enough--in fact I've considered a lot of things.

That woman has bothered me in more ways than one, I tell you frankly.

She's such a fine woman, splendid-looking, capable, an intellectual giant--one, I may say, who makes no common errors--and yet--" "Ah! and yet-- ?" There was then in Solon's eyes that curious reserve I had before noted--a reserve that hinted of some desperate but still secret design.
"Well, there you are." "Where ?" "Well--she seems to me to be a born leader of men." "I see, and you ?" "Oh, nothing--only I'm a man.

But something has got to be done.

We must use common sense in these matters." It was early evening a week later when I again saw Solon; one of those still, serene evenings of later summer when the light would yet permit an hour's play at the game.