He felt intolerably hot; his vexation at the betrayal of the senseless feeling made it worse, a conscious crimson. 'Aminta,' said she, rather in the style of Cuper's boys, when the name was a strange one to them.
'I remember my Italian master reading out a poem when I was a girl.
I read poetry then.
You wouldn't have imagined that.
I did, and liked it.