"They stared at each other. Branno in gray, Trevize in multishade brown.
Trevize said, 'What kind of an agreement?'
'Ah. You're curious. That's better. Then we can engage in conversation instead of confrontation. What is your point of view?'
'You know it well. You have been crawling in the mud with Councilman Compor, have you not?'
'I want to hear it from you—in the light of the Seldon Crisis just passed.'
'Very well, if that's what you want—Madam Mayor!' (He had been on the brink of saying 'old woman'). 'The image of Seldon was too correct, too impossibly correct after five hundred years. It's the eighth time he has appeared, I believe. On some occasions, no one was there to hear him. On at least one occasion, in the time of Indbur III, what he had to say was...