"I was going to marry one of them."
"Then why didn't you?"
"Because the little girl in Essex wouldn't let me."
"Little beast!"
"So you're jealous of her, are you? You needn't be. She's gone. She tried to swallow the Kritik der reinen Vernunft and it disagreed with her and she died.
"'Nur einmal doch mächt' ich dich sehen,
Und sinken vor dir auf's Knie,
Und sterbend zu dir sprechen,
Madam, ich liebe Sie!'"
"What's that? Oh, what's that?"
"That—Madam—is Heine."
VIII.
"My dearest Maurice—"