Irving enjoys a range of Christian pleasures and graces: singing with friends, watercolors, study, climbing exercises, handball.
Richard likes secrets, and Mowbray likes oaths.
New Year's Eve, 1845: Crozier drinks punch and mulls his options on Beechey Island.
Tang Fan has only grown wilder for and weaker to Sui Zhou in the years since they first met, when he made a home of this house and then the very man within it.
Bodyswap!
A treatise on the use of the riding-whip, or, Fitzjames and Crozier celebrate their safe return with a bit of recreational discipline.
He feels Sui Zhou's smile unlace over his pulse, languid and nude in its amusement. "You've had the morning," he answers, unmoved. "The day won't keep for you."
The crew of the Volunteer take pains to revive their surgeon after his plunge.
Antinous considers how one might become unlovable.
"You want your choirboy back, don't you?"
"The problem with that whole strategy is that it only works once, Aaron. Once if you're lucky."