Why, he's an old man--a wicked old man!" Thus her rage, hurling at O'Moy what in the insolence of her youth seemed the last insult.
"You are very unjust, Una.

You are even a little stupid," he said, deeming the punishment necessary and salutary.
"Stupid! I stupid! I have never been called stupid before." "But you have undoubtedly deserved to be," he assured her with perfect calm.
It took her aback by its directness, and for a moment left her without an answer.

Then: "I think you had better leave me," she told him frostily.

"You forget yourself." "Perhaps I do," he admitted.

"That is because I am more concerned to think of Dick and Terence and yourself.