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Morning, sweetheart. Oh, bonjour, Eva.

What?

Wh-What did you say?

I said, uh?

What did I say?

It sounded like Je bon ?

Fred, what is it? I don't know.

Sounded like, uh, French?

French?

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What does it mean, Fred? You never talked French before.

I know.

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Let's figure this out. You say something else in French.

We'll just see what we've got here.

Fred.

Fred? What?

Do you know what you just said?

Yeah.

A moan was heard. His mastiffs began to bark.

These gloves fit me.

He will soon be 15 years old, and he, uh?

He had an exact copy made of the monster.

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Mm. Damn.

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Eva, what are you doing up, honey?

I was worried about you.

- Are you still talking French? - Mm, worse than that.

Why? What happened?

It's unbelievable, really.

The main progress in producing fast particles...

was made by using relatively small voltages and repeated accelerations.

In most of the instruments used, the charged particles would ?

What? What are you saying?

I don't know.

It's-lt's just in my head.

You know, last night...

I cleaned up in a classroom where they teach French.

Now I talk French. Then tonight,

I cleaned up in a physics lab, a classroom in the mathematics building.

And now I know physics. I know mathematics. I know trigonometry.

We're going to go to see Professor Fetlock in the morning.

The psychology department?

Whatever is happening is happening in your brain, isn't it?

Yeah, I suppose so. But, Eva, you don't think I'm going crazy, do ya?

Oh, no, sweetheart. Of course you're not going crazy.

The natural logarithms of whole numbers...

from 10 to 200.

Number one, zero.

2.3026.

One.

2.3979.

2.4 ?

I'm sorry. Lfind this rather difficult to believe.

You see what I mean, Eva? There's no point? No, Fred. Please. Please?

- What did you say? - I said, "I'm willing to be advised."

Indeed.

You never studied French? No, sir.

- And never been to France? - No, sir.

You haven't suffered a sharp blow to the head lately, have you?

- No, I haven't. - Could you, uh, do some, uh, physics?

In Volta's battery, two different metals in contact give rise to a flow of electrons...

which are conducted from one cell to another.

Mathematics? The sum of the interior angles of any polygon...

can be determined by using the quantity "n" minus two times 180 degrees,

where "n"is the number of sides of the polygon.

- Fred. - Hmm?

What I'm going to do...

is speak to a few colleagues of mine,

uh, discuss this more fully with them and then get back to you.

Is that all right? Well, can't you tell us something now?

Not at the moment, Mrs. Elderman. No.

Except, of course, it's fascinating.

It wasn't exactly the Montreal Express,

just a warning that the train was in the station.

Eat a little something, sweetheart.

Maybe? Maybe you shouldn't go to work tonight.

Oh, come on, Eva. We can't afford for me to take off right now.

I know.

Try not to go inside the classrooms.

That's a good idea.

Really, that's a good idea.

You know, I'll, uh? I'll switch with Brady. I'll do his work.

Oh, good. Oh, good. That's good.

I came as soon as I could. Thank you for coming.

You said your husband had some kind of attack?

That's what he said when he came home last night.

When he came home from where? The main library.

The main library?

May I see him? Yes, of course. In here.

Sweetheart, Dr. Fetlock is here.

- Morning, Fred. - Buon giorno.

Now it's Italian. May I?

This attack, how'd it happen?

Well, I walked into the main reading room of the library...

to clean up, you know?

And, like a ton of bricks, it came down on me.