"Well."
"Shake the middle bar."
"Great God!"
"Does it resist?"
"No, it yields!"
"Very good, it has given me trouble enough, Heaven knows."
"It seems like a dream."
"Do you remember asking me if I did not make holes in anything, like all the others?"
"Yes, but you replied—"
"That I would tell you another time; was the answer a good one?"