Instead she insistedinsistthat he accept , and , indeed , take her with him .
It is a house which is impossible to overlook : and it was probably for this reason that Mrs. Pett insistedinsiston her husband buying it , for she was a woman who liked to be noticed .
“ There is the University , ” saidsaythe thin gentleman , who had previously insistedinsistupon the existence of people knowing Persian .