Cynara’s Toy took up the discourse, and said: “Do you interrogate me concerning Alciphenor, Fadaes, and Grifgrif? I have indeed been pretty well served; but this is the first time that I ever heard these folks named. However, I shall get some account of them from Amalek the Emir, Telenor the Financier, or the Vizier Abdiram, who know the whole world, and are my good friends.”

“Cynara’s Toy is discreet,” says Hannetillon: “it mentions not Zarafis, Ahiram, the old Trebister, and the young Mahmoud, who is not made to be forgotten; nor does it accuse the least Bramin, though it has been running through the monasteries these twelve years.”

“I have received some visits in my life,” says Melissa’s Toy, “but not one from Grifgrif or Fortimbek, and much less still from Hannetillon.”