Bloom:  (Communes with the night) Face reminds me of his poor mother.  In the shady wood.  The deep white breast.  Ferguson, I think I caught.  A girl.  Some girl.  Best thing could happen him. (He murmurs) ... swear that I will always hail, ever conceal, never reveal, any part or parts, art or arts ... (He murmurs) ... in the rough sands of the sea ... a cabletow’s length from the shore ... where the tide ebbs ... and flows ...

(Silent, thoughtful, alert he stands on guard, his fingers at his lips in
the attitude of secret master.  Against the dark wall A figure appears
slowly, A fairy boy of eleven, A changeling, kidnapped, dressed in an
Eton suit with glass shoes and A little bronze helmet, holding A book in
his hand.  He reads from right to left inaudibly, smiling, kissing the
page.)

Bloom:  (WONDERSTRUCK, calls inaudibly) Rudy!

Rudy:  (Gazes, unseeing, into Bloom’s eyes and goes on reading, kissing,
smiling.  He has A delicate mauve face.  On his suit he has diamond and
ruby buttons.  In his free left hand he holds A slim ivory cane with A
violet bowknot.  A white lambkin peeps out of his waistcoat pocket.)

    —­ III —­

Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion which he very badly needed.  His (Stephen’s) mind was not exactly what you would call wandering but a bit unsteady and on his expressed desire for some beverage to drink Mr Bloom in view of the hour it was and there being no pump of Vartry water available for their ablutions let alone drinking purposes hit upon an expedient by suggesting, off the reel, the propriety of the cabman’s shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral.  But how to get there was the rub.  For the nonce he was rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned.  So far as he