But I want to talk to you about yourself.

I owe you a good turn for what you did last night.

Only for you, I think Shea would have dared to touch me, and then very likely I should have killed him, and there might have been trouble afterwards.' She spoke quite calmly, but Hyacinth had very little doubt that she meant exactly what she said.

'Grealy of course, was useless.

One might have expected him to give utterance to an ancient tribal war-cry, but he didn't even do that.