"Of Damascus of Damascus. You know where Damascus is, don't you?"
"Fiddle!" said Marianne "I thought he was a Jew. Did he live before or after the Flood?"
"After. I should think you might have known that."
"Well, I can't make out anything about him," said Marianne.
"We shall have to give it up."
"No, no not yet," said William. "Where did he go after his wife?"
"Too close a question."
"Then that don't count. Had he ever seen her before?"
"Never."
"Was she willing to go with him?"
"Very willing. Ladies always are, when they go to be married."