But the Upas tree knows! You can't deceive the Upas tree, you liar! You may as well tell Helen that you wounded your lip on a branch of her Upas tree....
"Hullo, Dick! Come in, and welcome! Sit down, old boy.

I want to ask you something.

Hist! Listen! That motor, which hooted in the park a moment ago, contained a policeman--so it is essential we should know whether there is any by-law in Leipzig against men, as trees, walking.

Because you weren't walking about with a man, you know, but with a Upas tree.
When in doubt, ask--my wife! It would have made a sensational paragraph in the papers: 'Arrest of a Upas tree, in the streets of Leipzig!' Worse than 'Arrest of the Infant of Prague.' ...

Why! Where is the Infant ?" He turned and saw his 'cello, where he had placed it, leaning against a chair.
He rose, took it up, and walked over to the piano.
"A, D, G, C.'Allowable delights grow commonplace!' What did the fiend mean?
C, G, D, A.'Courage gains desired aims.' That's better! We aimed pretty straight at his lying mouth." He opened the piano, struck the notes, and tuned the 'cello exactly as he had seen Aubrey do.
At the first sound of the strings his mood changed.