"Explain this enigma to me."
"I would it were one; but a child can read it."
"I do not at all understand you?"
"I will explain myself more clearly."
"Go on."
"When you and your father, madam, start tomorrow for Tepic, my friends and myself will set out for San Francisco."
"San Francisco!"
"Alas! Yes."
"What need have you to go there?"
"I! None."