“Pray, express it to me!
“Should you ask such a pleasure of any other girl, it would be a fatal mistake for you. Remember, Oscar, that the Japanese girl is a mightily jealous thing!
“My sweetheart, I dreamed a dream.
“You were a dragonfly, while I was a butterfly. It is needless to say that we loved. One spring day we floated down along the canyon from a mountain a thousand miles afar. Our path was suddenly barred by a dense bush. We couldn’t attain to the Garden of Life without adventuring in it. So, then, you stole in from one place, I from another. Alas! We got parted forever.
“Isn’t that a terrible indication?
“Do you know any spell to turn it good? I am awfully agitated by it.
“Oh, kiss!
“Kiss me, my dear!
“I have to ascertain your love in it.
“Your