`` i mean , '' said dimble , in answer to the question she had not asked , `` if you dip into any college , or school , or parish- anything you like- at a given point in its history , you always find that there was a time before that point when there was more elbow-room and contrasts were n't so sharp ; and that there 's going to be a time after that point when there is even less room for indecision and choices are more momentous .