"You mean, Would to the Goddess Reason!"
"Leave me, Lorin; I cannot, and will not, go out. I am in bed, and here let me rest in peace."
Lorin scratched his ear.
"Well," said he, "I see how it is."
"What do you see?"
"That you wait for the Goddess Reason."
"By Jove," cried Maurice, "witty friends are great bores. Go, or I shall load both you and your goddess with curses."
"Charge! charge!"
Maurice raised his hand to curse him, when he was interrupted by his official, who at this moment entered, bearing in his hand a letter for his brother citizen.