"You seem to think I'm crazy.

I'm not.

I work everything on the most hard and fast common-sense lines.

But when a voice inside you tells you a thing day and night, you must believe it." Said Septimus: "If you had not met her, you wouldn't have met Hegisippe Cruchot, and so you wouldn't have got the idea of Army blisters." Sypher clapped him on the shoulder and extolled him as a miracle of lucidity.

He explained magniloquently.