Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“Dead silence ensued, which was well enough for Ansell, to whom it merely meant that neither of us had any more to say. But to educated people silence matters; it is a token of stupidity and lack of invention.”
Ansell
The Life to Come and other stories (1972)
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