V.--Oh, my friend, how anaphorical, and especially how epanaletical. J.--I don't understand. V.--I mean that you repeat yourself. It is the custom of lovers to abuse of the gorgiaques figures from the very protasis and exordium. J.--I love you because you are accomplished and perfect. V.--Did I not know you, I should think that you favored asteisin and ethossoia. J. (Somewhat abashed.)--Ah! do you see * * * V.--Why this aposiopesis? J.--Aposiopesis! V.--This reticence? J.--That is clearer. I acknowledge that the expressions you use annoy and trouble me. V.--You, on your side, speak a language stamped with schematism, while to be correct, even in making love, your language should be discursive. Allow me to tell you so frankly. J.--Anyhow, you do not doubt my love? V.--I pardon this epitrope, but pray use less metaphor and more litotes in the prosopography you dedicate to my modest entity-- J.--What will you? Men love women; I am a man; therefore, I love you. V.--Your syllogism is perfect in its premises, but the conclusion is false. J.--Oh! you are a cruel angel! V.--I like that catachresis, but once again I repeat, I am practical, and prefer synedoche. J. [Very much perplexed.]--Will you continue the conversation in the garden? V.--Yes. (They go into the garden.) Look, here is a very lovely parallelogram of green surrounded by petasites. Let us sit under those maritamboues will you? J.--Willingly! Ah! here I am happy! My heart fills with joy; it seems to me it contains the universe. V.--You are speaking pure Spinozism. J.--When I think that you will be my wife, and I your husband! What will be our destiny! V.--The equation being given you are looking for the unknown quantity. Like you, I shall await the co-efficient. J. (Who is determined to follow out his own thoughts)--With the world of constellations above us, and nature surrounding us, admire with me those orbs sending us their pure light. Look up there at that star. V.--It is Allioth, neighbor to the polar star. They are nearing the cosmical moment, and if we remain here a few moments longer the occultation will take place. J. (Resignedly.)--And there those thousands of stars. V.--It is the galaxy. Admire also the syzygy of those orbs. J. (Exhausted.)--And the moon; do you see the moon? V.--It is at its zenith; it will be at its nadir in fifteen days, unless there are any occultations in the movements of that satellite. J.--How happy I am! (They go indoors.) * * * * *