CSE 589 -- Lecture 6
Five or six weeks later, she asked me if I had deciphered the manuscript… I told her that I had.
“Without the key, sir, excuse me if I believe the thing impossible.”
“Do you wish me to name your key, madame?”
I then told her the key-word which belonged to no language, and I saw her surprise. She told me it was impossible, for she believed herself the only possessor of that word which she kept in her memory and which she had never written down.