In the tender and passionate speech that he was about to make to her, it would be necessary to address her by name.

But how--in Heaven's name--could he address a divinity as Poppy?
He settled the difficulty by deciding that he would not address her at all.

There should be no invocation.
He would simply explain.
He got up and walked about the room and explained in such words as pleased him the distinction between the corruptible and the incorruptible Eros.

From time to time he chanted his own poems in the intervals of explaining; for they bore upon the matter in hand.
"Rickets," said Poppy, severely, "you've had too much fizz.

I can see it in your eyes--most unmistakably.