RECAB.
I am glad of it, for I was in some fear lest I should vanish altogether.
BELPHEGOR.
I have now reduced myself to an equality with you, and we will walk into the lady together.
RECAB.
How strangely her appearance is altered! She is as large as I was when I started up through the roof, and is covered with great holes.
BELPHEGOR.
The alteration is only in your sight; by the diminution of your organs objects appear to you greatly magnified. The holes that you talk of are only the pores in the lady's skin, and the change of our bulk has qualified us to creep through them; so that you are no longer startled by being desired to walk into the lady. Though she appeared quite solid before we changed our size, we shall find her porous all through. We must fly up, enter at the forehead, and penetrate to the brain: follow me. Creep in at that pore, and now fold your wings, and walk close behind me: the road is very intricate.
RECAB.
Intricate, indeed! without you I should certainly have lost myself, and wandered about this woman's head for ever. You seem to know every turn.