Chapter 15 Perfect representation from Germany

Perfect representation from Germany (1) COUNTESS CROME I do not know when I have heard a more unusual compliment than this, Mr Hodge.I wish I was better than Mrs. Charter with her head covered.Does she wear panties? Septimus wears. COUNTESS CROME Yes, I've heard people wear petticoats these days and it's not normal for women to dress like jockeys.I just can't understand it. (She flicks her skirt and is about to leave.) I don't know any Pericles or Athenian philosophers at all.But I can take an hour and listen to you about them, in my living room, after I shower.seven o 'clock.Bring a book.

(She goes out. Septimus picked up the two letters, which he had written, and began to burn them on the alcohol stove. ) third game ① Refers to the fashion in the United Kingdom from 1811 to 1820--annotation.Valentine and Chloe are at the table.Gus is in the room. Chloe was reading articles in two Saturday newspapers.She was wearing period overalls, Regency style, and no hat. Valentine is typing on a laptop.He also wears unkempt Regency style clothing. The clothes had apparently been taken from a large wicker basket that served as a laundry basket, from which Gus was taking more clothes to try on himself.He found a Regency-style top and started trying it on.

The contents of the table now consisted of two geometric objects: a pyramid and a cone, about twenty inches high, of the kind used in drawing class; no the same). Chloe, Sex, Literature and Death Even in Arcadia - Sidley Manor, Portrait of Byron. Isn't Valentine a picture of Bernard? Chloe "Byron took a duel and killed a man, according to a college teacher"... Valentine, do you think I was the first to think of this? Valentine is not. Chloe I haven't said yet.The future is like a computer, fully programmed - that's a sound theory, right? Valentine's deterministic universe, yes.

Chloe is right.Because everything, including us, is just a lot of atoms bumping around like billiard balls. Valentine was right.There was a guy in 1820, I forget his name, who pointed out that according to Newton's laws, everything that is going to happen can be predicted -- I mean, you need a computer as big as the universe, but the equation is existing. Chloe But it doesn't work, does it? Valentine is right.Turns out the math is different. Chloe is wrong, it's all about sex. Valentin really? Chloe this is my thought.The whole universe is deterministic, yes, like Newton said, I mean it tries to be deterministic, but what's wrong is that people will imagine that there are some people, and on this part of the planet, those people should does not exist.

Valentin.It's an attraction that Newton didn't consider, going all the way back to the apple in the Garden of Eden.That's right. (pause) Yeah, I think you're the first to think of that. (Enter Hannah, holding a tabloid and a cup of tea.) Hannah, have you seen this? "Byron the Fiddler Kills the Poet". Chloe (happily) let me see. (Hannah gives her the newspaper and smiles at Gus.) Valentine he did a great job, didn't he?How did they know it all? Hannah don't be silly. (to Chloe) Your dad still needs to watch it. Alright Chloe. Hannah is such an idiot.

Chloe is jealous.I think it's amazing. (She gets up to go. To Gus) Yeah, that's perfect, but not in sneakers.Come on, I'll lend you a pair of flats that will make you look like a man of the time-- Hi Hannah, Gus, you all look very romantic. (Gus, who is following Chloe out, hesitates and smiles at Hannah.) Chloe (sternly) Are you coming? (She opens the door to let Gus out, then follows him out, giving the impression that she doesn't like it.) Hannah The important thing is, don't give a damn what young people think of you. (she reads several other newspapers) Valentine (uneasily) You see she has something for Bernard, doesn't she?

I don't worry about that, Hannah, she's old enough to think about herself. "Byron's Deadly Duel, According to College Teachers".Either this is better -- (suspiciously) "College teacher says!", with an exclamation point. Valentine This may prove to be true. Hannah That can't be true, it's just not proven wrong. Valentine (joyfully) is like science. Hannah Bernard would have succeeded if his findings had not been overturned before his death. Valentin It's just like science... the last thing to worry about is the Hereafter. Hannah I don't think it will take that long to posthumously.

Perfect representation from Germany (2) Valentine...and then there's the afterlife.The afterlife can be a mixed blessing. "Ah - Bernard Nightingale, I suppose you don't know Lord Byron yet." It must have been fun. Hannah You cannot believe in an afterlife, Valentine. Valentine, you will disappoint me after all. Hannah me?Why? Valentine Science and Religion. Hannah No, no, I believed it, it's over, it's boring. Valentin Oh, Hannah, fiancée.Be kind.Can't we have a trial marriage and I'll call it off tomorrow morning? Hannah (amused) I don't know when I've ever had a more unusual proposal.

Valentin (interested) Have you received it many times? Hannah Isn't that obvious? Valentine Oh, why not?Your classical reticence is only affectation and neurotic. Hannah, do you want to use this room? Valentine You get nothing if you don't give. Hannah I ask for nothing. Valentin, don't, stay here. (Valentine continues typing on his computer. Hannah sits down at the desk at the "her" end, next to her reference material. She has a stack of pocketbook-sized books, the Countess of Crum's gardening book. ) Hannah what are you doing?Valentine? Valentine A collection of points on a complex plane, given by --

Hannah grouse? Valentin Oh, grouse.Shit grouse. Hannah, you must not give up. Valentine why?Don't you agree with Bernard too? Hannah Oh, that one.It's all about trifles—your grouse, my hermit, Bernard's Byron.To compare our research objectives is to miss the point.It is the thirst for knowledge that makes us not dispensable, otherwise we will leave this world the same as when we came to this world, without any progress.So you can't believe in an afterlife, Valentine.Anyway, believe in the future, don't believe in an afterlife.Believe in God, soul, spirit, infinity, and angels if you will, but don't believe in grand reunions in heaven to exchange ideas.If the answer was at the back of the book, I might wait, but how boring that would be.Better yet is to try to understand, even knowing that failure is inevitable. (She looks at the computer screen behind Valentine. Exclaims) Oh!This... is so beautiful!

Valentine Coverly Collection. Hannah Coverly Collection!My God, Valentine! Valentine, borrow your finger. (He takes her fingers and strikes a key several times.) see it?Out of a sea of ​​ashes, orderly islands emerged, patterns emerged of themselves out of nothing.I can't show you how deep it is.Each image is a detail of the previous image, enlarged.And so on, to infinity.Pretty, isn't it? Hannah is it important? Valentine is interesting enough to publish. Well done Hannah! Valentine is not me.It was Thomasina who found it.I just continued to run her equations on the computer, millions of times more than she could do with a pencil. (He takes Thomasina's textbook from the old portfolio and hands it to Hannah. The piano begins.) It can be returned to you now. What does Hannah mean? Valentine is not what you expect. Why is Hannah different? Valentine Well, first of all, she will be famous. Hannah No, she won't.Before she could be famous, she died. Valentine is dead? Hannah... burnt to death. Valentin (realizes) Oh...the girl who died in the fire. Hannah the night before her seventeenth birthday.You can see the skylight there doesn't match the rest, and her bedroom is just under the roof.There is a memorial pavilion on the manor. Valentine (angry) I know--this is my family's house. (Valentin resumes typing on his computer. Hannah sits back in the chair. She flips through the textbook.) Hannah Valentine, Septimus was her governess--he and Thomasina would-- Valentine you research yours. (Short silence. The two study independently. Master Augustus -- fifteen years old, dressed in 1812 -- burst in through the door that did not lead into the music room.He was laughing and ducking under the table.Thomasina - sixteen years old and furious - ran after him into the room.She saw Augustus right away. ) Thomasina, you have cast your spell!You swore it! Perfect representation from Germany (3) (Augustus jumps out from under the table and Thomasina chases him around the table.) Augustus I'll tell mom!I will tell mom! Thomasina, you rascal! (She catches Augustus. Septimus came through the other door, with a book, a carafe, and a glass in his hand, and his case of papers. ) Septimus Hush!what happened?Oh my God!Be quiet, be quiet! (Thomasina and Augustus separate.) thank you very much. (Septimus goes to his place at the table. He pours himself a glass of wine.) Augustus, hello, Mr. Hodge! (He is laughing smugly at something) (Thomasina obediently picks up the drawing book and begins to draw the two geometric figures. Septimus opens his portfolio.) Septimus Will you come and paint with us this morning, Master Augustus?We have painting lessons. Augustus: I'm a master at Eton, Mr Hodge, but we only paint nude women. Septimus you can draw from memory. Thomasina is disgusting! Keep quiet, Septimus, if you can. (Septimus takes Thomasina's textbook from the portfolio and throws it to her, returning her homework. She grabs it and opens it.) Thomasina didn't score?Don't you like the equation I wrote about rabbits? Septimus I don't see anything like a rabbit. Thomasina it eats its own offspring. Septimus (a moment's silence) I don't see it. (He reaches for the textbook and she gives it to him.) Thomasina I have no place to write. (Septimus and Hannah are both flipping through books—the same book, in two copies at this point. Augustus idly starts drawing models.) Hannah, are you saying the world is saved after all? Valentine No, it's still doomed.But if that's how it started, that's how the next world might be. Hannah from Good British Algebra? Septimus it will progress to infinity or zero, or meaninglessness. Thomasina No, if you take away the minus square it makes sense again when squared. (Septimus turns the book. Thomasina begins to draw the model. Hannah closed her textbook and started looking at her stack of gardening books. ) Hello Valentine - you know your tea is getting cold. Hannah, I like it cold. Valentine (ignoring what she said) I'm going to tell you something.Your tea cools itself, but doesn't heat itself.Do you think that's weird? Hannah didn't think so. Valentin Well, it's weird.Heat goes cold, it's a one-way street and your tea will be room temperature by the end.What happens to your tea, happens to everything everywhere.sun and stars.It will take time, but we will all be at room temperature at the end of the day.When the hermit you studied said this, no one understood.But we'll say you're right, nobody knew more about heat in the 1800s than this madman who doodled in a cottage in Derbyshire. Hannah, he went to Cambridge - was a scientist. Valentine said he is, I will not argue with you.The girl was his student, and in the eyes of her governess, she was gifted. Hannah either said it the other way around. Valentin Say what you will, but not this one!Whatever he thought he was doing to save the world with good English algebra, this one wasn't! Hannah why?Because they didn't have calculators back then? Valentine was right and wrong.Because there is such an order, things cannot happen in this order.You have to have a house before you can open a door. Hannah: I thought that was how geniuses came about. Valentine is only for madmen and poets. (There is a brief silence.) Hannah "I had a dream that wasn't a dream at all. The bright sun eclipses the stars Roaming and darkening in the eternal universe indeed, No light, no roads, and the frozen earth Turning blindly in the moonless sky and turning black..."① ① This paragraph is quoted from Byron's "Darkness" poem - Annotation.Valentine yours? Hannah Byron's. Perfect representation from Germany (4) (Short silence. The two are immersed in research again.) Thomasina Septimus, do you think I will marry Lord Byron? Who is Augustus? Thomasina is the author of Childe Harold's Travels, which has the most poetic, sympathetic, and courageous protagonists, and the most stylish, and handsomest, of all the books I have ever read, because To those who knew him, like me and Septimus, Harold was Lord Byron himself.What do you say, Septimus? Septimus (absently) Not. (Then he puts her textbooks in the portfolio and picks up his own to read.) Why wouldn't Thomasina? Septimus First of all, he didn't know you. Thomasina: We looked at each other meaningfully many times when he was at Sidley Park.I really wonder why he hasn't written me a letter since he came back from his adventure for almost a year. Septimus It is impossible indeed, miss. Augustus Lord Byron? !He said that the rabbit I hit was his, even though I hit it first!He said I missed as far as a rabbit.He talks very humorously, but I don't think Lord Byron will marry you because he's only lame but not blind.Septimus be quiet!Quiet until a quarter past eleven.It is unbearable for students to interrupt the teacher's train of thought. Augustus Hello, you are not my teacher, sir.I voluntarily came to listen. Septimus It is as good as you decide, sir. ①Refers to the determinism discussed by Septimus and Thomasina earlier--annotation. (Thomasina laughs, she understands the joke. Augustus is angry that he did not understand.) Hey Augustus, it's no use for me to be quiet, you can't control me. Thomasina (warning him) Augustus! Septimus I can't help, sir.I am inspired by the value people place on learning and increasing their knowledge, and with this value comes access to God.Be quiet until quarter to eleven, and I will award a shilling to whoever draws the best cone and pyramid, and the first to do so. Augustus Well, there's no use for me not to talk for a shilling, what I can tell is worth much more than that. (He drops his sketchbook and pencils and stalks off, slamming the door behind him. There was a brief silence.Septimus looked at Thomasina questioningly. ) Thomasina I told him you kissed me, but he wouldn't tell anyone. Septimus When did I kiss you? Thomasina what?yesterday! Where is Septimus? Thomasina lips! Where is Septimus? Thomasina hides in her house, Septimus! Septimus hermitage, kiss on the lips!that?That kiss is not worth a shilling!I wouldn't even give sixpence for it.I have almost forgotten. Thomasina Oh, how cruel!Did you forget our agreement? Septimus God, help me!Our agreement? Thomasina taught me to waltz!Confirm with a kiss.If only I could dance as well as my mother, and a second kiss! Septimus Oh, yes, indeed.We used to waltz in a swarm in London. Thomasina I must waltz.Septimus!If I can't dance, I will be looked down upon!It's the funkiest, happiest, most imaginative invention one can think of - starting in Germany! Let them invent the Septimus Waltz, but calculus is not theirs. Thomasina My mother bought a whole book of waltz piano scores from the city and played it with Count Zelinski. Septimus I know well what it is that hurts me and I can't hide from it.While I was reading a book, Count Zelinsky kept banging on the piano and practicing the waltz. Thomasina Oh, nonsense!What book are you reading? Septimus, a prize-winning paper of the Paris Science Society, the author deserves your liking, because you predicted his appearance. Thomasina me?What did he write?Waltz? Septimus was right.He demonstrated the equilibrium state of heat transfer in solids.But in doing so, he discovered heresies—cases in nature that contradicted Sir Isaac Newton's theories. Thomasina Oh!He violated determinism? Septimus is not! ...well, maybe.He proved that atoms do not move according to Newton's theory. (Her interest shifts, her character is just so bubbly and changeable—she comes over to get the book.) Thomasina let me see--oh!French? Septimus is right.Paris is the capital of France. Thomasina showed me where to look. (Septimus takes the book back from Thomasina and shows her which page to read. Meanwhile, the sound of the piano next door doubles in note and emotion.) Now it's four-handed!My mother is in love with Earl. Septimus was an earl in Poland and a piano tuner in Derbyshire. Perfect representation from Germany (5) (Thomasina has already taken the book and is absorbed in reading. The piano sounds grow faster and more enthusiastically, and then the playing stops suddenly. The silence next door is so meaningful that Septimus looks up, but Thomasina does not Perceived. The silence allowed us to hear the regular "thunk" of the steam engine in the distance, the machine of which we shall speak later. After a while, the Countess of Krum came in from the music room, and when she saw someone in the classroom, she seemed to be taken aback and a little flustered.She collected herself as she closed the door behind her.She continued to watch aimlessly, cautiously, as if she didn't want to interfere with the class. Septimus was already on his feet, and she nodded for him to sit down. Chloe, dressed in Regency style, enters through the door opposite the music room.She saw Valentine and Hannah, but went to the door leading to the music room without stopping. ) Chloe Oh!Where's Gus? Valentine didn't know. (Chloe enters the music room.) COUNTESS CROME (angrily) Cough!Mr. Knox's machine! (She goes to the door to the garden and goes out. Enter Chloe. ) Chloe be damned. COUNTESS CROME (shouting loudly) Mr Knox! Valentine he was here just now... Countess of Croom Hello! Chloe ahem, he's got to take a picture - is he dressed yet? Hannah Bernard is back? Chloe didn't - he was late! (Over the noise of the steam engine, the piano is heard again. Countess Kroom returns to the room. Chloe walked out the door leading to the garden. ) Chloe (shouting) Gus! COUNTESS CROME I am surprised you are able to attend the lesson amidst such disturbance, sorry Mr Hodge. (Chloe returns to the room.) Valentine (rising) Don't push people around. COUNTESS CROME The noise is unbearable. Valentine photographer will wait. (He grumbles, however, and follows Chloe out the same door she came in, and closes it. Hannah remained preoccupied.A rhythmic "tong tong" sound can also be heard. ) The Countess of Croom is monotonous and, what is worse, endlessly annoying!Makes me upset.I might have to hide in town. Lady Septimus You can stay in the country and let Count Zelinsky go back to the city, and you won't hear him play while he's there. COUNTESS CROME I mean Mr. Knox's machine. (Half speaking to Septimus) Are you angry?I don't want my daughter to learn to be angry. THOMASINA (not listening to her) What, mother? (Thomasina remains absorbed in her book. The Countess of Croom closes the door to the garden again, and the noise of the steam engine subsides a bit. Hannah closed and opened another gardening book, taking occasional notes. The piano sound stopped. ) What did the Countess of Crum (to Thomasina) learn today? (Pause) Oh, that's not polite. Septimus we draw today. (Mrs. Croom glances roughly at what Thomasina has begun to draw.) Countess of Croom Geometry.I am in favor of geometry. Lady Septimus' approval is my constant aim. Countess of Crum, do not despair. (Going impatiently to the window again) Where's that "potential" Knox? (she looks out, angry) Huh!He is really unnecessary. (She returns to the table and touches the vase of dahlias) (Hannah sits back in her chair, fascinated by the reading.) I can almost forgive my brother's marriage because of that widow's dowry.We are lucky that the monkey bit Mr. Chater. If it was Mrs. Chatter, the monkey would have died. We also cannot show people a new variety of dahlia, which is the first in China. (Hannah reads the gardening book and stands up.) I had a pot sent to Chatworth, and the Duchess was delighted with it when I visited the Devonshire mansion.Your friend is out there making a big splash as a poet. (Hannah leaves through the door, following Valentine and Chloe. Meanwhile Thomasina slammed the book down on the table. ) Perfect representation from Germany (6) Thomasina Ha!Just like I said!Newton's system of relying on the laws of motion to fully explain the motion of atoms has loopholes!As I have always known, determinism tends to go awry at every opportunity, and the reason may well be hidden in this gentleman's arguments. What is the Countess of Croom about? Thomasina The state of an object with heat. Is the Countess of Crum geometric? Thomasina this?No, I hate geometry! The Countess of Croom (again, touching the dahlia, almost to herself) A week-end at the Charters would overthrow the Newtonian system. Septimus' geometry, Hobbes' in Leviathan, asserts to us that geometry is the only science that God has gladly given us. ①Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), British political philosopher--annotation.COUNTESS OF CROME What does he mean? Mr. Septimus Hobbes or God? Countess of Croom I certainly don't understand what the two of them mean. Thomasina Oh, fuck his Hobbs!Mountains are not pyramids, trees are not cones.If Euclidean geometry is God's only geometry, then he must love archery and architecture.But there is another geometry, and by trial and error I'm discovering, isn't there, Septimus?Septimus Trial and error, those two words describe your enthusiasm, miss. Countess of Croom How old are you today? Thomasina was sixteen and eleven months, mother, plus three weeks. The Countess of Croom was sixteen years and eleven months old.We have to marry you off before you are educated beyond recognition. Thomasina I will marry Lord Byron. Countess of Crum?He didn't mention it to me, which was not polite enough. Thomasina, did you speak to him? ! The Countess of Croom certainly didn't. Thomasina Where did you meet him? The Countess of Crum (with a certain indignation) has seen it everywhere. Thomasina Did you see, Septimus? Septimus is at the Royal Academy, and I have the honor of accompanying your mother and Count Zelinsky. What is Thomasina Lord Byron doing? The Countess of Crum poses. Septimus (decently) When he visits, have someone sketch... let the oil painting professor paint... Mr. Fuseli. The Countess of Croom They were painted in a more exaggerated pose than usual.Lord Byron's companion, following the example of the society in which the lady looking at the picture was more clothed than the lady in the picture, reversed the convention--well, enough!Let him get mixed up with a Miss Lamb.I've had enough of Mr. Knox coming into a garden like a bull into a china shop. (Just as Mr. Knox enters.) Thomasina Irregular Emperor arrives! (She started drawing diagrams again, the third item in the packet left over) Mr Knox, Countess of Croom! Mrs. Knox-- Countess of Crum Look what you've done to me! Knox will be all about satisfaction, I assure you.Hold on a minute, to be precise, but my dam needs to be repaired within this month-- COUNTESS CROME (slapping the table) Hush! (In the silence, I heard the sound of a steam engine in the distance.) Mr. Knox, do you hear me? Knox's (happily and proudly) improved Newcomen steam engine pump - the only one in England! ①Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729), British blacksmith, inventor, inventor of the piston steam engine - Annotation.COUNTESS CROME That is exactly what I object to.If everyone had their own one, then I'd be fine and take my own share of the pain.But to be alone tormented by the only improved Newcomen steam engine in England is a miserable, unbearable sin. Mrs. Knox-- COUNTESS CROME And what's all this about?My lake is drained and turned into a ditch, I don't know why, unless it's because the snipe and curlew all three counties come to our marshes to hunt.The forest you drew is an ordinary forest farm, the greenhouse you drew is a mud field, the waterfall you drew is mud, and the mountain you drew is an open-pit mine for mining the mud that is not available in the valley. (pointing out the window) What happened to that cowshed? KNOX You mean the hermitage, ma'am? The Countess of Crum is a bullpen. Mrs. Knox, it's a hermitage, I assure you, perfectly habitable, with a good foundation and drainage, two rooms, a closet, a slate roof, and a stone chimney-- Countess of Croom Who will live? Perfect representation from Germany (7) What about Knox, hermit. Where is Krum? Mrs. Knox? Countess of Croom Surely you will not offer a hermit-free hermitage? Knox, of course, ma'am-- COUNTESS CROME Well, there, Mr Knox.If someone promised to build me a fountain, I would think of water as well.What kind of hermit do you have? Knox I don't, ma'am. The Countess of Croom has none?I really have nothing to say. Knox I'm sure I can find a hermit.Can be advertised. The Countess of Crum advertised? Knox was in the paper. The Countess of Krum is definitely not a hermit who can read the newspaper, not the kind of hermit who can be completely trusted. Knox I don't know what to suggest, ma'am. Does Septimus have room for a piano? KNOX (confused) Piano? COUNTESS CROME We're in the way here - it's not good, Mr Hodge.Obviously learned nothing. (to Knox) ​​Come on, sir! Mr. Thomasina Knox--Bad news from Paris! Knox about Emperor Napoleon? Thomasina was not. (She tore a piece of paper out of the drawing book with "schematics") on your heat engine.No matter how you improve, you can never get as much as you put in.A shilling is not more than elevenpence in return, and that penny was paid to the author for his idea. (She shows the schematic to Septimus, who looks at it.) KNOX (confused again) Thanks, miss. (Knox goes out into the garden.) COUNTESS CROME (to Septimus) Do you understand her? Septimus didn't understand. ①French, meaning "I ask you to speak French tonight"--annotation.COUNTESS CROME Then put the matter aside.I got married when I was seventeen. Cesoirilfautquonparlefrançais, jetedemande, Thomasina, for the sake of courtesy to the count.Please put on your green velvet dress, and I'll let Briggs do your hair.Sixteen years and eleven months...! (She follows Knox out of sight.) Had Thomasina Lord Byron been with a lady? Septimus is right. Thomasina Ha! (At this moment Septimus takes his book back from Thomasina. He turns the pages and continues to study Thomasina's diagrams. He reads while caressing the turtle absently. Thomasina picks up the Take a pencil and start drawing Septimus stroking "Plautus".) Septimus Why does it mean that Mr. Knox's machine returns only elevenpence a shilling?Where did he write it? Thomasina is nowhere, I noticed it in passing and can't remember where. Septimus he's not interested in determinism either -- Thomasina Oh...that's right.In Newton's equation, the left side can wait for the right side, and the right side can wait for the left side, and it doesn't matter where it goes.But the thermal energy equation is very important, it can only have one direction.So Mr. Knox's engine cannot produce the power to propel the engine itself. Everyone knows Septimus. Thomasina Yes, Septimus, but that's all they know about engines! (A brief silence. He looks at his watch.) Septimus A quarter past eleven.For your composition this week, explain your schematic. Thomasina I can't explain it, I don't understand the math. Septimus Never mind the math. (Thomasina is already drawing again. She tore out the first page of the book and gave it to Septimus.) Thomasina to you.I drew a picture of you and "Plautus". Septimus (looks at it) is so resembling that it doesn't make me very handsome. (Thomasina laughs and leaves the room. Augustus appears at the gate leading to the garden.His demeanor is cautious and lacks self-confidence. Septimus didn't notice him at first.Septimus gathered the papers together. ) Mr. Augustus... Master Septimus...? Augustus, I've offended you just now, sir, I'm sorry. Septimus I don't think it at all, sir, but I am touched by your mention of it. Augustus I want to ask you a question, Mr. Hodge. (Pause.) Since your name is Septimus, I suppose you have a brother? ① Septimus (Septimus) is derived from Latin, meaning "(ranking) seventh"--annotation.Septimus Yes, sir, he is in London.He was editor of a newspaper, The Piccadilly Entertainment. (Pause) What do you want to ask?