There! Don't look so tragic.

I don't want to make myself a nuisance.

But all the same it's depressing to see you looking like a mixture of Hamlet and Ophelia and Iphigenia and--and--Don Quixote.

Was he tragic too?
I forget." "Hardly," said Ulyth, smiling in spite of herself.
"Well, I get mixed up among history and literature, can't always remember which is real and which is make-up.

It's a fact.