"Yes, but you have not set me that question in arithmetic yet."
"I cannot do so until you have come a little way with me. I want to show you the most wonderful thing you ever saw."
"May I ask what it is?"
"You need not be afraid."
"Why need not I be afraid?"
"Because you are not hump-backed and chicken-breasted and lop-sided and dwarfed and hideous."
"But what are you taking me to see?"
"Something more wonderful and more precious than any mystery gold, than my own miracle gold or my clock, and yet of a kind common enough."
"What?"
"A woman."