"All those clever scientists will arrive prepared to mock, then think they are taken in, and at last go away astonished to write columns upon columns in the papers." "And after that ?" queried Morris.
"Oh, after that, honour and glory and wealth and power and--the happy ending.

Doesn't it sound nice ?" "Ye--es, in a way.

But," he added with energy, "it won't come off.

No, not the aerophones, they are right enough I believe, but all the rest of it." "Why not ?" "Because it is too much.

'Happy endings' don't come off.