"The Lord Oro needed me, and those calculations were long and difficult.

Also twice he must visit the place whither we shall go tomorrow, and that took time." "Then it is close at hand ?" I said.
"Humphrey, be not foolish.

Do you not remember, who have travelled with him, that Oro can throw his soul afar and bring it back again laden with knowledge, as the feet of a bee are laden with golden dust?
Well, he went and went again, and I must wait.

And then the robes and shields; they must be prepared by his arts and mine.

Oh! ask not what they are, there is no time to tell, and it matters nothing.