"Mercer scrubbed me last night, and I feel fairly fit.

She'll forgive this beard, and I'll apologize for your sake.

What is her name ?" "I asked her, and she didn't seem to hear.

A little later Mercer asked her, and he said she just looked at him for a moment and he froze.

She is reading a volume of my Plutarch's 'Lives'-- actually reading it.