"I have had no shaving water; my coffee was undrinkable; I can find nothing.

I have a most important lecture to prepare and I cannot find any of the notes I made upon the subject." Quest stared at the Professor for a moment and then laughed softly.
"Well," he remarked, "you are rather an egoist, Professor, aren't you ?" "Perhaps I am," the latter confessed.

"Still, you must remember that the scientific world on those few occasions when I do appear in public, expects much of me.

My sense of proportion may perhaps be disarranged by this knowledge.

All that I can realise at the present moment, is this.