...And where's Margaret Pier? I know <i>she's</i> not dead, even if she's almost as old as I am and twice as stubborn."<br /><br />"She said she'd never set foot inside this house again. Not after what you said the last time."<br /><br />"Did I say something dreadful?"<br /><br />"You said blind Republicanism like hers was an inherited social disease, like syphilis. You said it. I heard you myself.