“Marvellously.”
“How?”
“How? Why, that is the most interesting way of reading novels.”
“You are so odd, Sensei.”
“Yes, I should say I am rather.”
“Why should you not read them from the beginning?”
“If you begin to read from the beginning, you will have to read to the end, don’t you see?”
“How absurdly you talk. There can be nothing wrong in reading through a novel?”
“No, of course not. If it is to read the plot, I, also shall do so.”
“What else is there to read, if not the plot?”