Though the monster may have stupid periods, the bird has none, and, hovering about bushes, fluttering over openings, ever alert, watchful and solicitous, naught may escape its eye, and, danger once discovered, swift is the warning to the slumbering giant, and then woe to the intruder on his domain! And such, dear pupil, is the rhinoceros-bird.

And you are my rhinoceros-bird." She understood, of course.

The look in her eyes told that, but her words belied her.
She said that, in a general way, the simile had application, the rhinoceros being a huge beast of uncouth appearance.
And, so far as this conversation was concerned, he perished miserably.
But that was only the beginning of a practical exhibition of the woman's earnestness and acuteness, and her great love.

It was but evidence that she was to be, what she became in time, his rhinoceros-bird in all things, his right hand, prompter in such relations as a woman's wit and woman's way best serve.

She was of him.
But with two who blended, so there must be many added intervals of delicious nonsense before the reality of marriage came.
They made odd names for things.