Richard, sitting at the table, glanced at Pandora and with a flicker in his eyes, spoke up, "Pandora?"
"Ah?" Pandora snapped back to reality, looking over as if startled awake from a dream.
"The Multiplication Table I taught you, how much do you remember?"
"That..." Pandora's eyes gradually widened, and after a long time, she spoke with evident unease, "Pretty much, yeah, pretty much."
"Pretty much? Okay then, recite it for me."
"Ah!" Pandora's eyes grew even larger, "Right now?"
"When else?"
Under Richard's watchful gaze, Pandora began to speak unwillingly, stammering through her recitation.
"One times one is one."
The one-character table passed smoothly.
"One times two is two, two times two is four."
The two-character table passed smoothly.
"One times three is three... four times four is sixteen."
Afterwards, the three-character and four-character tables also passed, and then came the five-character table.
