don't quite recollect the headings that far."

"'Of the eternal punishment of the wicked in hell, and of the various
objections urged against it,'" quoted Lewis, smiling.

Leighton grinned his appreciation.

"There is a flavor about unconscious humor," he said, "that's like the
bouquet to a fine wine: only the initiated catch it. I'm afraid you were
an educated person even before you read St. Augustine. Did he put up a
good case for torment? You see, you've found me out. I've never read
him."

"His case was weak in spots," said Lewis. "His examples from nature, for
instance, proving that bodies may remain unconsumed and alive in fire."

"Yes?" said Leighton.

"He starts out, 'if, therefore the salamander lives in fire, as
naturalists have recorded----' I looked up salamander in the
dictionary."

Lewis's eyes were laughing, but Leighton's grew suddenly grave. "Poor
old chap!" he said. "He didn't know that time rots the sanest argument.
'Oh... that mine adversary had written a book,' cried one who knew."

Leighton sat thoughtful for a moment, then he threw up his head.

"Well," he said, "we'll give up trying to find out how you got educated.
Let's change the subject. Has it occurred to you that at any moment you