“Don’t pay any attention to it; these are absurdities.”
Afterwards Mlle. Cadet told Cæsar that she was going to cast his horoscope. “Good! Out with it.”
The governess, who was clever, studied Cæsar’s hand and expressed herself in sibylline terms:
“You have something of everything, a little of some things and a great deal of others; you are not a harmonious individual.”
“No?”
“No. You are very intelligent.”
“Thank you.”
“Let the sibyl talk,” said the Sandoval girl.
“You have a strong sense of logic,” the governess went on.
“That’s possible.”