"How?"
"Read."
He handed me his newspaper, which contained a description of the latest eruption of Vesuvius.
"Well?" I said to him when I had read it.
"Well, do you not think that superb?"
"Magnificent!"
"Put that in my part then. Run your show with Vesuvius; the play would gain by it."
"And your rôle likewise."
"Of course!"
"You infernal mountebank; what an idea!"