"Oh, bother Lord Mellifont! I allude to yours about Mr. Vawdrey, who is much the more interesting person of the two. I'm fascinated by that vision of his—what-do-you-call-it?"
"His alternative identity?"
"His other self: that's easier to say."
"You accept it, then, you adopt it?"
"Adopt it? I rejoice in it! It became tremendously vivid to me last evening."
"While he read to you there?"
"Yes, as I listened to him, watched him. It simplified everything, explained everything."
"That's indeed the blessing of it. Is the scene very fine?"
"Magnificent, and he reads beautifully."
"Almost as well as the other one writes!" I laughed.