″‘You talk too much,’ their teacher commented. ‘Your tongue will be your undoing one of these days.’
Alarmed, Antonius squinted at the tip of his tongue.”
″‘It isn’t a person,’ Antonius insisted. ‘It’s a ghost. A ghost can’t suffocate.’
‘Shut up!’ Mucius snapped. ‘Ghosts don’t sit in wardrobes in the morning.‘”
“The burglar who did this may be studying mathematics and doesn’t have the money to buy books. He heard that you were a famous mathematician and so he came here and hit you on the head...”