- Why kind?
- Not many young ladies in bookshops would go out of their way to look up rare books for an old professor of Botany.
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- Why, it is Professor Schumacher, isn't it?
- Do you like me better this way?
- You look ever so much younger without the beard. Twenty years at least.
- You'll be glad to know those books you ordered have finally arrived.
- Yes. Thank you. You're very kind.
- Why, you're not old, Professor. Really you look... What do I look like?
- And besides, I adore botany. It's my particular hobby.
- Oh, really? You never told me that before, Miss Markham.
- Well, I was afraid to. You were so imposing with the beard and all.
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