As a
teacher of geometry, it is my business to dwell among angles; and the
thirty-five boys in my class will bear witness to the fact that my
relations with angles, great and small, are above reproach. I admit
that there are angles everywhere, and that a man who really likes their
company will stumble against them in the most unexpected places. But
they are sometimes hard to see, unless one deliberately looks for them.
I think Charlie must have been looking for them in Trinidad."
"I said angles AND THINGS, and I always stick to what I say. AND
THINGS. You will be good enough, Mr. Professor, to draw your map
accordingly."
"Gentlemen! I rise to a point of order. Our Indian friend here is
greatly annoyed. He has been accused of wearing stays. At his urgent
request I have convinced myself, by personal inspection, that he wears
nothing of the kind. He is naturally slim-waisted, as befits a worthy
representative of the noble Hairyan race. It has also been suggested
that he loses caste by his present mode of conduct.
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