“How about your rhapsodist with the four-stringed lyre? I daresay you are right as to archæology, but——”
“Well?”
“It is rather dangerous; people are certain to laugh.”
“H’m! laughable is it that an antique lyre should have only four notes?”
Another:
“There is a risky word in your prologue that I fairly tremble over.”
“What’s that?”
“Triomphaux.”
“Well, why not? Is not it the plural of triomphal just as chevaux is of cheval?”
“Yes, but it is not much used.”