And by a process which is new to me,
My faculties are scarcely wide awake,
But if my memory serves me faithfully,
This twisted thing and I have met before.
Mous. The ladies are at supper. Now’s my time
To master, undisturbed by curious eyes,
The ghostly secrets of my spirit book!
Where was I? Oh! (reads) “Take scammony and rue,
With henbane gathered—”
Flor. (coming behind and taking book from him).