To talk to them just now! But happily

I can play several instruments at once,

And I will drown the shrieks of those that fall

With trumpet music such as soldiers love.

How stand we with respect to gunpowder?

My Lady Psyche—you who superintend

The lab’ratory, where your class compounds

That hideous chemical—are you prepared

To blow these bearded rascals into shreds?

Psyche. Why, madam—