Canopean agent Incent succumbs to Undulant Rhetoric His colleague, Klorathy, goes to assess his condition, which looks bad Tears flood down Incent's face as he broods in self-accusation and a predisposition to heroism, yearning for a perfect world With talk of a coming Sirian invasion, Volyendestans are falling into the declamatory mode and Klorathy has his work cut out as the victims of words are inflamed to the justice of their cause