"What's that? Who was Apicius?"
"There, now, you are shockingly ignorant; you really don't know what apis means in Sanscrit—bah!"
"In Sanscrit? True; but in Latin it is—"
"Bee: I'll help you out."
"Very well, you are an Apician, you say: expound."
"Why! do I not admire Belle-bouche?"
"I believe so."
"Pretty mouth—that is the translation?"
"A mouth like Suckling's lady-love's—stay, was it Suckling? Yes: Sir John. 'Some bee had stung it newly,' you know. Well, Belle-bouche has honey lips—a beautiful idea—and bees love honey, and I love Belle-bouche: there's the syllogism, as you tiresome logicians say. Q. E. D., I am an Apician!"