Sublime

Bag Men,

"for you and me, you see, mother; for you and me, you understand that, I hope." "Perfectly, my dear brother." Lucy blushed.

Someone, thought the deputy, whose origins were working class, had almost certainly been at school with someone else. Professor Somerville’s father with the Ambassador’s cousin, perhaps . . . There would have been those exchanges by which upper-class Englishmen, like dogs round a lamppost, sniff out each other’s schooling – faggings at Eton, beatin

The kind of guy some kids think is a child-eating troll but other kids suspect, correctly, is a secret wizard.