“Your Grace will allow me to leave this question unanswered!”
“For what reason?” the Duke asked with seeming coolness.
“Because my answer would explain nothing to you.”
“Why do you think so? the explanations which you have given me, as yet, have been very satisfactory to me.”
“They concerned only things which you were able to comprehend.”
“Indeed! you pay me a very bad compliment!”
“My Lord, do not misunderstand me, you have been telling me a little while ago, that you have not yet been initiated by Hiermanfor in the last mysteries of his philosophy!”
“I did, but what follows thence?”
“That you are still in want of the knowledge which will be requisite, if you are to be capable of comprehending the appearance of your tutor.”
“Don’t pretend to persuade me that this apparition has been effected by supernatural means.”