I do not soon run out of time for intelligent conversation. Already you have raised ideas I cannot say I would certainly have come to on my own!

( She wonders, idly, who she can persuade to consent to testing his theory. )

An unskilled translator, also, would simply take too long - you see, I dictated to him a piece of work with which I am most familiar, and he wrote it for me in Tevene. If he cannot translate my words as I speak them -

( Her tone is the implication of the and so gesture that he wouldn't have been able to see regardless of crystal or no crystal. )