“I think with you,” returned Richard, more and more astonished at the insight of a girl who had read next to nothing. “Our lecturer at King's,” he went on, “pointed out to us, in this part, what some call a blunder.”
“What is it?”
“I will give you the verses again; and you see if you can pick it out.”
“Do, please.”
“—Till clombe above the eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip.”
“I never saw a star there! But I see nothing wrong.”
“Which is the nearest to us of the heavenly bodies?”
“The moon, I suppose.”
“Certainly:—how, then, could a star come between us and it? For if the star were within the tip of the moon, it must be between us and the dark part of the moon!”
“I see! How stupid of me! But let me think!—If the star were just on the edge of the moon, between the horns, it would almost look as if it were within the tips—might it not?”