"May I write down all you have told me?"
"What for?"
"To act as a guide to my studies."
"You need not trouble, seeing you have me at hand."
"But perhaps I shall not always have you."
"If you have not me, you will have someone else."
"But he might not perhaps know what you do?"
Lassagne shrugged his shoulders.
"My dear lad," he said, "I only know what all the world knows; I only tell you what the first person you met might tell you."
"Then I must be ignorant indeed!" I murmured, letting my head fall into my hands.