"There's been so much mystery, and I suppose it was nothing, after all.

What was it all about?
Or do you know--eh?
Fifteen years ago you came to see my father, and now you have come to see me--all in the light o' the moon, as it were; like a villain in a play.

Ah, yes, you said it was to make an experiment--yet you didn't know what oxygen was! It's foolish making experiments, unless you know what you are playing with, Soolsby.

See, here are two glasses." He held them up.

"If I poured one into the other, we'd have an experiment--and you and I would be picked up in fragments and carried away in a basket.