"Foresight?"
"Yes; if you had previously made arrangements with a bear, the whole scene might have been realized."
"You are joking, whilst I am taking the matter au serieux."
"That order is usually reversed; generally you are the quiz and I am the quizzee."
"You will admit, at all events, that I would not have permitted the bear to eat you."
Here Sophia burst into a peal of laughter, and vanished with her gazelle.
FOOTNOTES:
[D] Aulus Gellius, VII., 8.
[E] Macrobius, Saturn, XL, 4.
[F] Plutarch.