“Indeed. Then I am sure you will have read the Letter of St. Paul to Timothy, in which he says, Let a woman be silent—” I had, in fact, encountered St. Paul and his opinions before, and had a few of my own. “I expect St. Paul ran into a woman who could outargue him, too,” I said, not without sympathy. “Easier to try to put a stopper on the entire sex than to win his point fairly. I should have expected better of you, though, Mr. Christie.” “But that’s blasphemy!” he gasped, clearly shocked. “It is not,” I countered, “unless you’re saying that St. Paul is actually God—and if you are, then I
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