"Be he Skeptickal, Stupid, or both, the others try to win him over to their view of things." Caroline had suddenly gone all flushed and girlish, and looked to Newton and Leibniz for their support in the venture. Phant’sying she saw what she wanted, she turned back to the bemused Daniel, who was saying: "Am I to understand that the purpose of the discussion is now to subject me to a religious conversion ?"