There are all kinds of phenomena in life which have nothing whatsoever to do with reason.

You have convinced my reason that I'm an egotistical dreamer.

But nothing you can do or say will ever remove the craving for you that I have here "-- and he thumped his big chest--"like hunger." When he had gone Zora thought over the scene with more disturbance of mind than she appreciated.

She laughed to herself at Sypher's fantastic claim.
To give up the great things of the world, Life itself, for the sake of a quack ointment! It was preposterous.

Sypher was as crazy as Septimus; perhaps crazier, for the latter did not thump his chest and inform her that his guns or his patent convertible bed-razor-strop had need of her "here." Decidedly, the results of her first excursion into the big world had not turned out satisfactorily.