CAXTON (interrupting her, without lifting his eyes from the book he had already taken).--"Certainly you would not.

I am now in the midst of the great Oxford Controversy.

[The same Greek proverb]--don't disturb Camarina." A dead silence for half-an-hour, at the end of which-- PISISTRATUS (from behind the screen).--"Blanche, my dear, I want to consult you." Blanche does not stir.
PISISTRATUS.--"Blanche, I say." Blanche glances in triumph towards Mr.
Caxton.
MR.

CAXTON (laying down his theological tract, and rubbing his spectacles mournfully).--"I hear him, child; I hear him.

I retract my vindication of man.