"My dear, you said but now you would ask my opinion when Miss Helstone was gone. I am scarcely likely to give it in her presence."
"No; and perhaps it will be long enough before I obtain it.--I am sometimes sadly tantalized, Mr. Helstone, by Mrs. Pryor's extreme caution. Her judgments ought to be correct when they come, for they are often as tardy of delivery as a Lord Chancellor's. On some people's characters I cannot get her to pronounce a sentence, entreat as I may."
Mrs. Pryor here smiled.
"Yes," said her pupil, "I know what that smile means. You are thinking of my gentleman-tenant.--Do you know Mr. Moore of the Hollow?" she asked Mr. Helstone.

"My dear, you said you would ask my opinion when Miss Helstone was gone, not in her presence."
"No; and perhaps it will be long before I obtain it. - I am sometimes sadly tantalized, Mr. Helstone, by Mrs. Pryor's extreme caution. On some people's characters I cannot get her to pronounce a sentence, entreat as I may."
Mrs. Pryor smiled.
"Yes," said her pupil, "I know what that smile means. You are thinking of Mr. Moore of the Hollow. Do you know him?" she asked Mr. Helstone.
