The fool had brought a letter of inquiry and warm greeting from Angele to Buonespoir, who was laboriously inditing one in return. When Lempriere entered the pirate greeted him jovially.
"In the very pinch of time you come," he said. "You have grammar and syntax and etiquette."
"'Tis even so, Nuncio," said the fool. "Here is needed prosody potential. Exhale!"
The three put their heads together above the paper.