"I suppose you are aware, said he," checking off points upon his fingers, "that the cranial index is a constant factor?"
"Naturally," said I.
"And the telegony is still sub judice?"
"Undoubtedly."
"And that the germ plasm is *differend from the parthenogenetic egg?
"Why surely! I cried, and glorified in my own audacity.
"But was does that prove?" * he asked in a gentle peruasive voice.
"Ah, what indeed?" I murmured. "What does it prove?"
"Shall I tell you?" he cooed.
"Pray do."
"It proves," he roared, with a sudden blast of fury, "that you are the rankest impostor in London - a vile, crawling journalist, who has no more science than he has decency in his composition!"