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and immediately adjacent to the sleeping apartment of his
host and hostess.
What various advantages would or might have resulted
from a prolongation of such an extemporisation?
For the guest: security of domicile and seclusion of
study. For the host: rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious
satisfaction. For the hostess: disintegration of obsession, ac-
quisition of correct Italian pronunciation.
Why might these several provisional contingencies be-
tween a guest and a hostess not necessarily preclude or be
precluded by a permanent eventuality of reconciliatory
union between a schoolfellow and a jew’s daughter?
Because the way to daughter led through mother, the
way to mother through daughter.
To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of his host
did the guest return a monosyllabic negative answer?
If he had known the late Mrs Emily Sinico, accidentally
killed at Sydney Parade railway station, 14 October 1903.
What inchoate corollary statement was consequently
suppressed by the host?
A statement explanatory of his absence on the occasion
of the interment of Mrs Mary Dedalus (born Goulding),
26 June 1903, vigil of the anniversary of the decease of Ru-
dolph Bloom (born Virag).
Was the proposal of asylum accepted?
Promptly, inexplicably, with amicability, gratefully it
was declined. What exchange of money took place between
host and guest?
The former returned to the latter, without interest, a sum