But Miss Majendie is equal to most things.
"'Who excuses himself _accuses_ himself,'" quotes she with terrible readiness.

"Why that gesture, Mr.Curzon?
I made no mention of _your_ name.

And indeed, I trust your age would place you outside of any such suspicion, still, I am bound to be careful where my niece's interests are concerned.

You, as her guardian if a _faithful_ guardian" (with open doubt as to this, expressed in eye and pointed finger), "should be the first to applaud my caution." "You take an extreme view," begins the professor, a little feebly, perhaps.

That eye and that pointed finger have cowed him.
"One's views _have_ to be extreme in these days if one would continue in the paths of virtue," said Miss Majendie.