"I think you will find that I submit to it still" "Very well." She forced some gaiety to her aid.

After all, how could she let his monstrous stupidity wound a heart protected by such a letter?
"You have been a very foolish and presumptuous boy," she began.

She was standing up, smiling, wagging a reproachful but nervous finger at him.

"If it were not that I have a weakness for seeing medical men making themselves ridiculous so that I may put them right, I should be very indignant with you, sir." "Put me right, Grizel," he said.

He was sure she was trying to blind him again.
"Know, then, David, that I am not the poor-spirited, humble creature you seem to have come here in search of--" "But you admitted--" "How dare you interrupt me, sir! Yes, I admit that I am not quite as I was, but I glory in it.