'It's Not It, Cried My Uncle

"The great mind of so learned a man, of course, had no place for love affairs," he writes. "These letters named one at a time had carried no sense to my mind." The professor's eyes flashed right through his spectacles as he grasped the old parchment. It was deeply moved. At last, he gave a preliminary call, and with profound gravity, naming and succession the first, then the second letter of each word".