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Summary
SEPTIMUS: Am I so fortunate as to choose my own Christmas gift?
THOMASINA: Mama wishes me to demonstrate I have learned not only Pythagoras this year. She would prefer I embroider you a case for your eye-glasses but you would only use it for an ink-blotter. I shall approximate the golden ratio with cloves stuck in your orange instead; that will be a happy medium of art and science.
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