mistressmaryquitecontrary: (older - determined)
mistressmaryquitecontrary ([personal profile] mistressmaryquitecontrary) wrote in [personal profile] wolflord_andain 2012-01-22 06:19 am (UTC)

"I had never thought of them as intellectual exercises!" Mary protests.

"I do know -- it is not that I do not know why you teach them to me! It is only that I have been out of the habit of thinking that way when I have --"

She's trying to make an explanation, worried that it will sound like an excuse.

"One cannot turn medicine into chess. Or if there is a way, I do not know it. It is not a game one can win."

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