"I stopped Mendarva the other day, and he told me wonders about you.

He says he tried you with a hard-boiled egg, and you swung the hammer and chipped the shell all round without bruising the white a bit.

Is that true ?" Taffy nodded.
"And your learning--the Latin and Greek, I mean; do you still go on with it ?" He nodded again, towards a volume of Euripides that lay open on the workbench.
"And the stories you used to tell George and me; do you go on telling them to yourself ?" He was obliged to confess that he never did.

She sat for a while watching the sparks as they flew.

Then she said, "I should like to hear you tell one again.