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'We could make an omelette?' said Miss Level cheerfully 'Oh, please, Miss Level!' Tiffany wailed Miss Level patted her on the back 'It'll happen Perhaps you're trying too hard One day it'll come The power does come, you know You just have to put yourself in its path-'

'Couldn't youof it?'

'I'm afraid I can't,' said Miss Level 'A sha You can't even carry one around, except as an ornaht where and when you want to use it'

'Why?' said Tiffany 'To catch thein The way you tie the knots, the way the string runs -'

'- the freshness of the egg, perhaps, and the moisture in the air -' said the first Miss Level '- the tension of the twigs and the kind of things that you just happen to have in your pocket at that ,' the first Miss Level concluded 'All these things make a kind of of picture of the here-and-nohen you ht And I can't even tell you how to move them, because I don't know'

'But you dolost 'I saw you-'

'I do it but I don't kno I do,' said Miss Level, picking up a couple of twigs and taking a length of thread Miss Level sat down at the table opposite Miss Level, and all four hands started to put a shaether 'This reminds me of when I was in the circus,' she said 1 was -'

'- walking out for a while with Marco and Falco, the Flying Pastrami Brothers,' the other part of Miss Level went on 'They would do -'

'- triple somersaults fifty feet up with no safety net What lads they were! As alike as two -'

'- peas, and Marco could catch Falco blindfolded Why, for a moment I wondered if they were just like hed 'Anyway,' she went on, 'one day I asked theh wire and Falco said, "Never

ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance If he stops to think about it, he falls off" Although actually -'

'- he said it like this, "Nev-ah aska tightaroper walkerer " because the lads pretended they were fron and iht no one would want to watch acrobats called The Flying Sidney and Frank Cartwright Good advice, though, wherever it came from' The hands worked This was not a lone Miss Level, a bit flustered, but the full Miss Level, all twenty fingers working together 'Of course,' she said, 'it can be helpful to have the right sort of things in your pocket I always carry a few sequins -'