He stopped her triumphantly.
'No, no, you can't make that long!' He pointed to one of the Greek words.
Her fair skin flushed.
'But indeed you can!' she said eagerly.

'Merry quotes three parallel passages.

I have them in one of my notebooks.' And she began to search her table.

Mannering stopped her ungraciously.
'Of course there's always some learned fool behind every bad reading.

Anyway, what do you say to those accents ?' He pointed severely to another line of her Greek.