"Then I am wiser than you, for I do."
"You!" Mrs. Moxton bit her lip. "What do you know?"
"That the signs stand for the letters R. U. Z. What the lizard, as I think it is, means I don't know. Mrs. Moxton, what is the meaning of the three letters R. U. Z.?"
"I don't know, really I don't!"
"Had your husband any friend with a name beginning Ruz, or with initials R. U. Z.?"
"Not that I ever heard of."
"What about the lizard?"
"I cannot understand its meaning."
"And you don't comprehend either the letters or the cypher?"
"No! no! no!"