“Because it is too much like the C I have made already. I was going to put an H instead of it.”
“What a subtle idea!” observed Roveni, with his usual irony. “Have you finished?”
“Yes, sir,” said I; adding under my breath, “More’s the pity!”
“Come,—why are you standing there moonstruck? Enunciate the theorem!”
Then began my sorrows. The terms of the question had escaped my memory.
“In a triangle ...” I stammered.
“Go on.”
I took courage and said all I knew.
“In a triangle ... the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides.”
“In any triangle?”