Are we not all brethren?
CHAPTER IX.
“Well, fair damsels, I have found out the great, great secret!”
“Oh, do tell us! Who is he?”
“Who he is I cannot say, but I now know his name.”
“Then Don Miff is not his real name!” said Mary, with a rather injured air. “But of course we could not expect, in our every-day world, to meet an actual person with such a name as that.”
“I should think not,” said Alice. “But what is his name, Mr. Whacker? How fearfully slow you are, when we are dying of curiosity, as you know!”
“How stupid we have all been!” said I.
“In what respect?”
“How shockingly, dismally stupid and obtuse!”