The poet says 'bees': but the singular, especially if written with a capital, adds in my opinion that mock-heroic touch which, as the translator must frequently miss it for all his pains, he had better insert where he can.

By the way, how have you spelt 'Phoebus' ?" "F.e.b.u.s," I answered.
"I feared so," he sighed.

"And 'site' ?" "S.i.g.h.t." I felt pretty sure about this.

He smote his forehead.
"That is how Miss Plinlimmon taught me," I urged almost defiantly.
"I beg your pardon--'Plinlimmon,' did you say?
An unusual name.
Do you indeed know a Miss Plinlimmon ?" "It is the name of my dearest friend, sir." "Most singular! You cannot tell me, I dare say, if she happens to be related to my old friend Arthur Plinlimmon ?" "She is his sister." "This is most interesting.

I remember her, then, as a girl.
You must know that Arthur Plinlimmon and I were comrades in the old Fourth Regiment, and dear friends--are dear friends yet, I trust, although time and circumstances have separated us.