_I_ won't let _you_ off.

I'm Miss Minerva and you're Zo.
Look!" He humoured her silently and mechanically--just as he had humoured her in the matter of the stick, and in the matter of the tickling.

Having opened the dictionary, he looked again at Carmina.

She had not moved; she seemed to be weary enough to fall asleep.

The reaction--nothing but the reaction.