"Absolutely idiotic, but we do such a lot of idiotic things in this life.... One more or less, you know!..."
I sat down to this silly work and wrote out the first letters:
"Take no...."
I broke off in surprise:
"Words!" I exclaimed. "Two English words meaning...."
"Go on, old chap."
And I went on and the next letters formed two more words, which I separated as they appeared. And, to my great amazement, a complete English sentence lay before my eyes.
"Done?" asked Lupin, after a time.
"Done!... By the way, there are mistakes in the spelling...."
"Never mind those and read it out, please.... Read slowly."