After that, the Food of the Gods sounded blatant to the pitch of indecency.

He was surprised he had used the expression.

Yet for all that something of that clear-eyed moment hung about him and broke out ever and again....
"Really, you know," he said, rubbing his hands together and laughing nervously, "it has more than a theoretical interest.
"For example," he confided, bringing his face close to the Professor's and dropping to an undertone, "it would perhaps, if suitably handled, _sell_....
"Precisely," he said, walking away,--"as a Food.

Or at least a food ingredient.
"Assuming of course that it is palatable.

A thing we cannot know till we have prepared it." He turned upon the hearthrug, and studied the carefully designed slits upon his cloth shoes.
"Name ?" he said, looking up in response to an inquiry.