You are a plausible lunatic, anyway. Would you mind mentioning who you were, for instance—

THE DEVIL

Oh, all the first-rate fellows—Confucius, Buddha, Mahomet—St. Augustine, Martin Luther, Moses—to mention a few—Shakespeare, Dickens—those were my sentimental days—

AGNUS (amused)

Oh! you wrote Shakespeare’s plays, did you?—

THE DEVIL

All the good ones—

AGNUS (laughing boisterously)

Well, that’s settled anyway—Bacon didn’t do it, after all—

THE DEVIL