A triangle is a sweet instrument in the mathematics of love; for oft, about the first of April nights, I’ve watched the merry wild geese in the sky flying northward in musical and far-sounding triangles.

Whetstone.

I know them well. I have one in my brass band in Cornville.

Violet.

And yet triangulation by moonlight were a pleasant death, betwixt substance and shadow. Ninon, girl, quick! bring me my bronze-covered trigonometry.

[Exit Ninon.

Whetstone.

Hold on! There must be some mistake here. Please don’t pull any trigger on us!

Bluegrass [aside].

And make angels of us!