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.

"_Your_ views," with a piercing and condemnatory glance, "are evidently _not_ extreme.

One word for all, Mr.Curzon, and this argument is at an end.