"Patty, I'd take your word for anything you know about. But, for instance, I couldn't take your word that there are blue roses."
"But there are! That's just what the Cosmic Centre people are,—they're blue roses! I never thought of it before, but they are."
"Then beware of them. Blue roses are freaks——"
"Yes, I know it. But there are worse things in this world than freaks.
I'd rather a man would be a freak than a—a mud turtle!"
"Are many of your friends mud turtles?"
"Yes, they are. They stick their heads in the sand——"
"Look out for your Natural History! You're thinking of ostriches."
"All the same. Now, Sam Blaney——"
"Patty! You don't mean to say that chap is Sam Blaney! I thought he looked a bit familiar! Sam! old Sam Blaney! Well!"
"What's the matter, Billee? Do you know him?"