I couldn't lie down for anybody to walk over me.

My work would suffer--but in this mission of mine Zora Middlemist is intimately involved.

I said it when I first saw her, and I said it just before she left for California.

She is to stand by my side and help me.

How, God knows." He laughed, seeing the bewildered face of Septimus, who had never heard of this transcendental connection of Zora with the spread of Sypher's Cure.