"tomorrow ‘there will be no more time!’" laughed hippolyte, hysterically. "you needn’t be afraid; i shall get through the whole thing in forty minutes, at most an hour! look how interested everybody is! everybody has drawn near. look! look at them all staring at my sealed packet! if i hadn’t sealed it up it wouldn’t have been half so effective! ha, ha! that’s mystery, that is! now then, gentlemen, shall i break the seal or not? say the word; it’s a mystery, i tell you a secret! prince, you know who said there would be ‘no more time’? it was the great and powerful angel in the apocalypse."