...Which will be Carroll's cue, I daresay, for him to tell me yet again that he & I have nothing to say to one another: an astonishing piece of impertinence whose constant iteration has become a sort of tic of his. So I will point out, yet again, that if he considers himself to have nothing to say to me, that is his privilege; but it confers on him not the remotest right or authority to tell me, or to endeavour to control, to whom I have anything to say; the sole decision as to which shall remain with me, without the leave of him or anybody else.

~M~